UK: Nigeria faces risk of Easter attacks
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April 6, 2012, Friday
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NIGERIA is facing a "high risk" of a terrorist attack over the Easter holiday, the United Kingdom warned its citizens yesterday, as the United States issued a similar warning to those living in the West African nation that sees near-daily attacks by a radical Islamist sect.
The UK Foreign Office and the US Embassy in Nigeria's capital Abuja issued the updated travel warnings yesterday, noting that a radical Islamist sect in Nigeria known as Boko Haram carried out attacks on Christmas Day. A sect-claimed car bombing at a Catholic church outside of Abuja that day killed at least 44 people.
The UK also advised its citizens to avoid travel to Borno, Niger, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto and Yobe states, part of Nigeria's Muslim north.
"There is a high threat of terrorist attack during religious festivals," the UK warning read.
The US warning noted the near-daily attacks now hitting Nigeria and that there have been "continued threats, including several that mention US interests." The warning also noted that personnel from the US Embassy no longer travel to northern Nigeria, a rule put in place after a Boko Haram attack on the city of Kano in January killed at least 185 people.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, is waging an increasingly bloody fight with security agencies and the public. More than 380 people have been killed in violence blamed on the sect this year alone, according to an unofficial count.
The UK Foreign Office and the US Embassy in Nigeria's capital Abuja issued the updated travel warnings yesterday, noting that a radical Islamist sect in Nigeria known as Boko Haram carried out attacks on Christmas Day. A sect-claimed car bombing at a Catholic church outside of Abuja that day killed at least 44 people.
The UK also advised its citizens to avoid travel to Borno, Niger, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Sokoto and Yobe states, part of Nigeria's Muslim north.
"There is a high threat of terrorist attack during religious festivals," the UK warning read.
The US warning noted the near-daily attacks now hitting Nigeria and that there have been "continued threats, including several that mention US interests." The warning also noted that personnel from the US Embassy no longer travel to northern Nigeria, a rule put in place after a Boko Haram attack on the city of Kano in January killed at least 185 people.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria's north, is waging an increasingly bloody fight with security agencies and the public. More than 380 people have been killed in violence blamed on the sect this year alone, according to an unofficial count.
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