At least 21 mourners, mostly children and women, were killed when a tricycle was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Boko Haram terrorists in Yobe State. According to Daily Trust, the bomb exploded in Goni in Mittiri village near Gumsa town in Geidam local government area of the state, on Tuesday, October 31, 2023, killing 18 persons instantly. The attack occurred after the victims attended the burial of the youths killed by the terrorists …
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Scores of Lagos residents who attended Mohbad’s candlelight procession tonight took to their heels when police allegedly threw tear gas to disperse them. A candlelight procession and memorial concert for Mohbad held Thursday night, Sept. 21. The procession started earlier in the evening at Lekki Phase 1 and the memorial concert began later by 8 PM at the Muri Okunola Park in Victoria Island, Lagos. However, by 11pm, those still carrying on the procession at Lekki began …
Four mourners have been killed while 15 others sustained various degrees of injury in an auto accident in Benue State. The accident occured along the Gboko-Makurdi highway after the vehicle they were travelling in lost control and rammed into a tree on Thursday morning, April 7. The accident was said to have occured after the Toyota Hiace bus which was conveying some members of the Catholic Women Organisation (CWO) lost control around the NYSC Orientation Camp located at …
This is the haunting moment a corpse appears to wave to mourners from inside a coffin. The strange incident, which was filmed by one of the morners occurred as the deceased was being buried during a Christian service in the city of Manado in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, on May 5. As a priest read prayers with the devastated family of the deceased gathered around, a hand and fingers could be seen moving under the glass panel in the casket. In the …