Boko Haram Claims Responsibility for Nigerian Suicide Bombing
- Country's north has been focus of militant group's attacks
- Assault on religious procession a week after market bombing
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The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Friday’s suicide bombing that killed at least 21 people and injured dozens of others near Kano, Nigeria’s second largest city.
A message written in Arabic on a social media forum on Saturday, claiming to be from Boko Haram, identified the bomber, who targeted a procession of hundreds of Shiite Muslims in the northern city, as Abu Suleiman Al-Ansari, and said he had died a martyr.