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Suicide bomber kills at least 50 dead at mosque in Nigeria

Reuters, Yola/Bauchi, Nigeria | By
Nov 21, 2017 07:07 PM IST

Boko Haram has waged an insurgency in northeast Nigeria since 2009 in its attempt to create an Islamic state in the region, killing more than 20,000 and forcing around 2 million people to flee their homes.

A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday in the biggest mass killing this year in a region facing an insurgency by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

File photo of the scene of a bombing at Emab business centre, filled with the wreckage of burnt cars, in the business district of Abuja on June 26, 2014. chi(Reuters)
File photo of the scene of a bombing at Emab business centre, filled with the wreckage of burnt cars, in the business district of Abuja on June 26, 2014. chi(Reuters)

Abubakar Othman, a police spokesman in Adamawa state, said the death toll from the attack in the town of Mubi is 50 people, but “there could be more as those seriously injured could add to the figure”.

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Mubi is in Adamawa state where Boko Haram militants held territory in 2014, although the insurgents were pushed out of those areas by troops in early 2015.

Boko Haram typically mounts suicide attacks in crowded public places such as mosques and markets.

Tuesday’s attack is the highest loss of life since an assault in the same state last December, when two schoolgirl suicide bombers killed 56 people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated attack on a crowded market.

Boko Haram has waged an insurgency in northeast Nigeria since 2009 in its attempt to create an Islamic state in the region, killing more than 20,000 and forcing around 2 million people to flee their homes.

Most attacks by the group focus on Borno state, the birthplace of the insurgency.

The group held a swathe of land around the size of Belgium in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states until early 2015 but were forced out by Nigeria’s army backed by troops from neighbouring countries.

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