Boko Haram Bombs Nigerian Targets

Twin bombings in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna killed at least 82 people on Wednesday and Boko Haram is suspected to be responsible. One of the attacks in a crowded marketplace targeted former president and opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari. A Red Cross official said 50 were killed at that bombing. An additional 32 were killed earlier in the day in a bombing that took place as a popular moderate Muslim cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, was about to lead his congregation in prayer. (Neither Buhari nor Bauchi were killed.) Boko Haram has launched a series of bombings in the northeastern part of the country over the past three months.