Five people were wounded and two female suicide bombers died
Saturday in an attack outside a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, local police
said.
The women wearing explosive belts died after one activated
her explosives when stopped trying to enter a mosque near a federal court in
Maiduguri, said Borno police spokesman Victor Isuku.
“Following an explosion close to a mosque… emergency teams
evacuated the bodies of two women,” Abdulkadir Ibrahim of the National
Emergency Management Agency in the region told AFP.
The northern Borno state has been gripped by an insurgency
of Boko Haram Islamists, a faction of which is affiliated with the Islamic
State group.
More than 20,000 have been killed and 2.6 million have been
displaced since the beginning of the rebellion in 2009
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