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Suicide bombings kills 60 in Nigeria

IANS Abuja

At least 60 people were killed in twin suicide bomb attacks at a refugee camp in the Dikwa town, some 90 km from the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, local officials said on Wednesday.

Satomi Ahmad, chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency, said two female suicide bombers on Tuesday sneaked into an internally displaced persons camp and detonated themselves in the middle of it, adding that 78 people were injured, Xinhua reported.

 

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First Published: Feb 11 2016 | 2:24 AM IST

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