Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
Tuesday night a blast struck a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, killing 32 people and wounding 80 others according to the Red Cross and national Emergency Management Agency. The explosion struck after dark at a fruit and vegetable market beside a main road.
There has not been an immediate claim for the blast but it has major characteristics of the Islamist group Boko Haram which has killed thousands of people over the last six years in it’s campaign to turn Nigeria into a strict Islamic state.
According to many news reports, Tuesday night’s bombings break a three-week break in violence after a string of suicide attacks resulted in twin explosions in mosques in two northeastern cities that killed 42 people and wounded more than 100 on Oct. 23.
One of the mosques attacked was in Yola, capital of Adamawa state, where the insurgents struck again. It was the third suicide bombing in as many months in a city overflowing with some of the 2.3 million refugees driven from their homes by the Islamic uprising.
The militants have focused attacks on markets, bus stations and places of worship, as well as hit-and-run attacks on villages since losing most of the territory they took over earlier this year to the Nigerian army.
In a report by CBS news, Nigeria’s military has reported foiling several suicide bombers recently, and killing and capturing insurgents as it destroys Boko Haram camps in air raids and ground attacks.
“The enemies of humanity will never win. Hand in hand, we will rid our land of terrorism,” Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said in a tweet.
