Nigeria: At least 50 people were killed by a teenage suicide bomber at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday. Reportedly, it is the biggest mass killing this year in a region facing an insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
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” said Abubakar Othman, a police spokesman in Adamawa state.
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.
Tuesday’s attack is the highest loss of life since 56 people were killed 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.
