Nigeria's grief

Last Monday, 2000 Nigerian students gathered in assembly to hear the principal of the school.  At 7:30 a.m. an explosive device sewn into a popular type of backpack detonated.  About 47 individuals never went home to their families again, and another 79 were injured.

It is thought that the brutal attack was one in the series of attacks carried out recently in that region by terrorist group Boko Haram.  

In the town of Chibok, 276 school girls were kidnapped last spring by these terrorists - and they have recently taken over the town.  

Why are they doing this?

"Boko Haram is seeking to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria."  So then the next  question must be asked:  how could the murder of school children possibly help them establish an Islamic state?

More tomorrow.