WITHIN NIGERIA highlights one major event that occured on April 26 in the history of this country, Nigeria in an effort to create awareness for education and enlightenment purpose.
Suicide car bombers hit Newspapers offices
On this day, April 26 in 2012, suicide car bombers targeted the offices of Nigerian newspaper This Day in the capital Abuja and northern city of Kaduna on Thursday, killed atleast four people in apparently coordinated strikes.
According to witnesses and the state securityservice, one bomber drove a jeep into the daily’s office in Abuja at around 11 a.m. (1000 GMT), killing himself and two others.
At the same time, 140 km (90 miles) north in Kaduna, a car was stopped from getting into This Day’s offices and one of the attackers jumped out.
“He was immediately challenged by two gallant Nigerians, following which he threw the bomb at them and it detonated, killing them instantly,” the SSS said in a statement.
It identified the bomber as Umaru Mustapha, from Maiduguri in Borno state, the home of Boko Haram in the remote northeast of Africa’s most populous nation.
Later in the day, a roadside bomb exploded in a suburb of Kaduna, wounding 4 people but causing no deaths, Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawal said.
This Day angered Muslims a decade ago when one of its columnists suggested the Prophet Mohammad might have wanted to marry a beauty queen. At least one hundred people were killed in ensuing riots. (CREDITS: REUTERS)
