At to the lowest degree viii people were killed on Mon when a woman someone suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque inwards northeastern Nigeria.
The caput of the Borno acre emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, said the boom injured xv others inwards the London Ciki surface area of Maiduguri, which has been at the epicentre of Boko Haram violence since 2009.
"The mosque was beingness guarded past times civilian JTF [joint trace of piece of job forcefulness militia] during prayers," he told AFP.
"Unknown to them, the daughter was beingness pursued from some other business office of town past times residents who were suspicious of her displace at the time.
"When she approached the mosque, they demanded that she cease to live searched precisely she of a abrupt bolted into the mosque together with gear upwards off her bombs."
"There were 2 girls that wanted to gear upwards on the mosque precisely i of them got stuck inwards barbed wire inwards the ditch dug most the area. The minute i escaped together with began to run every bit our operatives at that spot began to chase afterward her," said spokesman Danbatta Bello amongst the Civilian-JTF self-defence force.
"She rushed to the mosque together with detonated the minute bomb."
The mosque collapsed inwards the blast. Police did non instantly comment.
Two other woman someone suicide bombers were shot together with killed inwards Maiduguri around the same fourth dimension every bit the mosque was attacked, Bello said.
It is the minute fourth dimension inwards a calendar week that 4 woman someone suicide bombers accept sought to displace carnage inwards Maiduguri.
Last Monday, at to the lowest degree nineteen people were killed together with 23 others injured when 4 women gear upwards off their bombs inwards the Molai Kolemari surface area of the city.
Boko Haram has increasingly used girls together with immature women to deport out attacks. Some immature women who escaped the hardline grouping accept said girls are drugged together with forced to deport out suicide missions.
Nigeria's authorities slow concluding twelvemonth declared that Boko Haram had been "crushed" precisely deadly attacks continue. The Islamic grouping accept killed to a greater extent than than 20,000 people, abducted thousands of others together with spilled over into neighbouring countries.
Northeastern Nigeria is business office of what the UN has called the world's largest humanitarian crisis inwards to a greater extent than than seventy years, amongst the World Food Programme estimating that to a greater extent than than 4.5 1000000 people inwards the share postulate emergency nutrient assistance. Boko Haram has disrupted both agriculture together with markets.
Source: News agencies