Interpol arrests former intelligence officer over blast in Nigeria
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI — Nigeria said a suspect in a bombing that killed 75 people in the capital of Abuja was arrested in Sudan as the US conducts surveillance flights searching for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last month by Boko Haram Islamists.Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, a UK-born, former Nigerian military intelligence officer and army deserter, was arrested in Sudan by Interpol, Mike Omeri, a spokesman for the government, told reporters on Thursday."Arrangements are being made to extradite him to Nigeria," he said.The capital’s worst attack on April 14 in the Nyanya district occurred the same day insurgents attacked a school in Chibok in the northeastern state of Borno and abducted 276 schoolgirls. Two weeks later another bomb went off metres away from the site of the previous one, killing 19 people. Boko Haram took responsibility for the attacks.Lieutenant-Colonel Myles Caggins confirmed the use of US planes in efforts to locate the schoolgirls. A Global Hawk drone made by Northrop Gr...
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