Nigeria: Homemade Bombs Found In Car

Strafor.com

29 March 2011

Nigerian police discovered two homemade bombs in a car carrying three suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to a political rally March 29, Zakai Adamu, the state assistant police commissioner for Borno state said, AFP reported. When the two locally-made bombs were discovered by police in the boot of the car, the three suspects ran and police opened fire. One suspect was killed, another was wounded, and the third was able to escape, Adamu said. It is believed the suspects were going to detonate the bombs at the campaign rally.