Imagine this: you're strolling along the Maiduguri Monday Market, taking in the sights. There are people all around you, selling and buying and trading, laughing and smiling and telling jokes. The sky is blue and the sun is hot. You're having fun, enjoying looking at all the wares; you've been considering getting something to eat from the corner stall for some time now and start in that direction.
And then the world around you explodes.
The scene I've just described to you actually happened in Maiduguri, Nigeria - a bomb blast went off in the heart of the city last March, 2013, and another bomb has just been set off, hidden in a rickshaw, whicih is a type of transportation cart. The death toll is over 30 people (including children) and is still climbing. Over 50 people are feared dead and others are huddled in hospitals, being treated in hopes that they will survive. Over twenty vehicles and many (uncounted as of yet) roadside tents were destroyed.
"The bomb, planted in a three-wheel rickshaw taxi, exploded outside the state television offices at about 1.30pm (1230 GMT), witnesses told Reuters." (Online article featuring the bomb.)
In my opinion - and hopefully in anyone else's - this is awful. Killing children, destroying lives, tearing families apart from their loved ones; it's just a terrible thing to do. It's a terrible thing to have HAPPEN. There was no use in the bombing - what did it accomplish? Nothing. It was an awful, horrific waste of life.
Why do you think that people bomb places? To inspire fear or to cause destruction - or is there another reason?
This is terrible! Killing innocent people and children! I have no idea why someone would do this! They probably just have sick minds and decide that the best way to live life is to cause pain. To try to imagine the pain these people are going through is impossible. How would America respond if we were bombed? Something so strange to us to even think about but is happening everyday in other countries. We don't realize how lucky we are to just be alive.
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