Suicide Tricycle Bomber Kills Four in Northeast Nigerian City

A suicide bomber on a motorized tricycle killed four people after detonating explosives in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday.

The bomber failed to ram a 18-seat bus at about 8 a.m. as the vehicle moved out of a station in the city, said Hassan Ibrahim, a pro-government militia member.

“The suicide bomber could not gain enough momentum to get to the traveling bus,” Ibrahim said by phone from Maiduguri. A “few kilometers away from the garage it exploded, killing the tricyclist and three other people who were walking on the road. A few others have also been injured and have been taken to the hospital for treatment.”

Africa’s largest economy has been hit by the worst spate of violence since President Muhammadu Buhari took office on May 29. Bombings in the Nigerian cities of Jos and Zaria killed nearly 70 people in the past week. Maiduguri, the birthplace of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, has been the scene of some of the worst bloodshed.

Source http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-11/suicide-tricycle-bomber-kills-four-in-northeast-nigerian-city