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Boko Haram suicide bomber kills 13 in Maiduguri
23 Octobre 2017
Abuja, Nigeria, October 23 (Infosplusgabon) - A Boko Haram suicide bomber on Sunday night killed 13 people in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the epicentre of the Boko Haram insurgency.
The attack also injured five people, police said. Two subsequent suicide bombings also injured more than a dozen others.
The explosions, which occurred at about 8.20pm (1920GMT) around the Muna Garage area at the outskirts of the city, created panic in the area.
Commissioner of Police, Borno Command, Mr Damian Chukwu, said that there were some bomb blasts.
Boko Haram has killed more than 20,000 people during in its eight-year insurgency against the Nigerian government in a bid to create a strict Islamic state in the majority Muslim north. Maiduguri, the capital of the state of Borno, is the birthplace of Boko Haram.
A report issued last month by the human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, said at least 223 civilians have been killed by Boko Haram since April this year, including 100 civilians in August alone. Amnesty says the “real figure may be higher, as some attacks may have gone unreported”.
The deadliest attack occurred on 25 July, when 40 people were gunned down in an ambush on an oil exploration team in Borno State.
It said the violence from Boko Haram had led to millions of civilians across the Lake Chad region in need of humanitarian assistance. A total of 2.3 million people have been displaced in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, and more than seven million face serious food shortages.
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