Kano Grand Mosque Attack: Eleven Years After
On Friday 28 November 2014 Boko Haram bombed Kano’s Grand Central Mosque killing at least 130 people and injuring over 135 people. Today marks 11–years after one of the deadliest attacks by Boko Haram since starting a ruthless reign of utter impunity.
Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the main mosque in Kano. Inside the mosque there were bullet marks on the pillars and the suicide bombers’ blood can be seen splattered across the walls and right up inside the dome of the grand mosque. One of the suicide bombers drove a car into the midsts assembled worshippers, leaving behind blood and body parts.
Since then Boko Haram and other armed groups in northern Nigeria countinue to target churches, mosques, markets, the clergy, schools and government buildings. Women and girls are still being abducted and raped and put through sex slavery.
The Nigerian authorities must do more to protect lives of all people.
Amnesty International Nigeria.
