Nigeria’s military says a suicide bomber has detonated his explosive vest inside a mosque in the country’s northeast, martyring six worshippers.<\/p>\n
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Nigeria’s military says a suicide bomber has detonated his explosive vest inside a mosque in the country’s northeast, martyring six worshippers.<\/p>\n
An army spokesman, Colonel SaniKukasheka Usman, said in a statement that two bombers first tried the larger Damboa Central Mosque early Friday but were kept from entering by armed soldiers acting as mosque security.<\/p>\n
He said one bomber detonated and killed only himself near the Damboa Central Mosque, but the other bomber entered a smaller mosque and martyred six with his blast.<\/p>\n
Damboa is 70 kilometers from Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno.<\/p>\n
Officials often blame such blasts on Boko Haram extremists who have killed hundreds this year in the region.<\/p>\n
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