Bokos claim full responsibility for today’s Kano attacks

By Adeshola Fashola

Boko Haram, whose name translates literally as “Western education is forbidden”, has claimed full responsibility attacks that rocked Kano today.

A spokesman for the group, Abul Qaqa, told journalists in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, the group’s base, that it had carried out the attacks because the authorities had refused to release members arrested in Kano.

Analysts say this is one of Boko Haram’s largest simultaneous attacks, and certainly its largest assault on Kano. It stepped up its attacks in 2011, targeting police headquarters and the UN in the capital Abuja.

In recent weeks, southerners, who are mostly Christians or animists, living in the north have been the targets of deadly attacks.

Copyright: www.bbc.co.uk

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