ABUJA (Reuters) - Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
has claimed responsibility for two explosions on June 25 at a fuel depot in
Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub, in a video seen by Reuters on Sunday, which if
true would be the militants' first recorded attack on the city.
"A bomb went off in Lagos. I ordered (the
bomber) who went and detonated it," Shekau said.
The two blasts minutes apart last month in the main
port of Apapa were almost certainly caused by bombs, three senior security
sources and the manager of a major container company told Reuters. One was most
likely the work of a female suicide bomber, they said.
Authorities said the blasts on Creek Road were an
accident caused by a gas canister, but the security sources told Reuters that
was a cover-up meant to prevent panic in the city of 21 million people. At
least two people were killed.
Shekau also claimed a bomb in a shopping mall in
Abuja's upmarket Wuse II district that killed 24 people, the third in the
capital since April and among a growing body of evidence that its attacks are
spreading southwards.
Source:
Reuters
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