Boko Haram suicide bomber target Shia mosque in Nigeria

A suicide bomber was killed while trying to attack a Shiite mosque in Yobe state in northeast Nigeria

A suicide bomber was killed while trying to attack a Shiite mosque in Yobe state in northeast Nigeria.

The would-be bomber detonated his explosives a few meters from an open-air mosque in the Dogo Tebo area of Potiskum shortly after afternoon prayers.

According to witnesses, about ten worshippers were hit by shrapnel and sustained mild injuries.

Boko Haram, whose insurgency to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria has killed at least 15,000 since 2009, condemns Shias as heretics who should be killed.

The group has carried out several suicides and bombing attacks on Potiskum, which is the commercial hub of Yobe state and one of the worst hit by the violence.