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Thursday 11 Feb 2016 - 12:51 Makkah mean time-2-5-1437
Boko Haram terrorist group (Image from Internet)
Abuja (IINA) – More than 70 people were killed and 78 others were injured in a double suicide attack, reportedly committed by women, at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, Al Jazeera News reported quoting local officials.
The twin bombings occurred at a camp in the town of Dikwa, some 80km northeast of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram.
Authorities arrested one woman who had refused to detonate a bomb after travelling to the camp from a nearby town with two other bombers, Ahmed Satomi, of the State Management Agency, told Al Jazeera.
"The one they arrested alive, she confessed. She feel that her parents would come and that's why she refused to detonate her own bomb," Satomi said.
It is reported that the finger of blame is already pointing at Boko Haram, given the fact that attacks on civilian targets by suspected members of the militant group have been on the increase recently in Nigeria.
The camp is home to 50,000 people driven from their homes by the armed group, whose six-year-old insurgency has killed 20,000 people and made 2.5 million homeless.
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