ABUJA: A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an assault on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicentre of the warfare with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram, army officers and an support worker mentioned.
The bomber hit the mosque within the the town of Gamboru in Borno state, close to Nigeria's border with Cameroon, all through morning time prayers, mentioned Ali Mustapha, an support worker.
"I was on my way to dawn prayer, then I heard the sound of a loud bomb explosion inside the mosque," Mustapha advised Reuters.
"The mosque was destroyed and burnt," he mentioned. "After some hours, when we came to evacuation of the people, we saw 11 corpses, with the suicide bomber making (the total number of dead) 12."
Pictures of the aftermath of the blast showed the our bodies of the useless uncovered and covered up on the ground. A construction have been diminished to rubble, with only a few sections of wall left status.
Nobody claimed duty for the assault, but it surely bears the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a jihadist group which regularly uses suicide bombers, often girls and women, to assault crowded public areas similar to mosques and markets.
Despite repeated govt and military assertions that the insurgency has been defeated, Boko Haram continues to carry out deadly attacks on the army and civilians.
Last week four civilians had been killed in an assault through suspected Boko Haram militants on Maiduguri, the Nigerian city on the centre of the warfare with the Islamists.
In November a suicide bomber killed no less than 50 people in an assault on a mosque, in one of the most deadliest bombings of recent years.
The bomber hit the mosque within the the town of Gamboru in Borno state, close to Nigeria's border with Cameroon, all through morning time prayers, mentioned Ali Mustapha, an support worker.
"I was on my way to dawn prayer, then I heard the sound of a loud bomb explosion inside the mosque," Mustapha advised Reuters.
"The mosque was destroyed and burnt," he mentioned. "After some hours, when we came to evacuation of the people, we saw 11 corpses, with the suicide bomber making (the total number of dead) 12."
Pictures of the aftermath of the blast showed the our bodies of the useless uncovered and covered up on the ground. A construction have been diminished to rubble, with only a few sections of wall left status.
Nobody claimed duty for the assault, but it surely bears the hallmarks of Boko Haram, a jihadist group which regularly uses suicide bombers, often girls and women, to assault crowded public areas similar to mosques and markets.
Despite repeated govt and military assertions that the insurgency has been defeated, Boko Haram continues to carry out deadly attacks on the army and civilians.
Last week four civilians had been killed in an assault through suspected Boko Haram militants on Maiduguri, the Nigerian city on the centre of the warfare with the Islamists.
In November a suicide bomber killed no less than 50 people in an assault on a mosque, in one of the most deadliest bombings of recent years.
Nigeria: Suicide bomber kills 11 in mosque attack
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