A
suicide bomber has killed five people in the Damaturu in north-east Nigeria,
according to a statement released by a publicity agency working for the
government. It adds that 20 people were injured. The statement does not identify who
could have been behind the bombing, but militant group Boko Haram has carried
out attacks in the area in the past.
Girl
Suicide Bomber Kills 5, Injures 41 In Northeast Nigeria
Two suicide bombers
carried out separate attacks Tuesday that killed five people in Damaturu, a
town in northeastern Nigeria, police and witnesses said. In one attack, a girl
bomber died in an explosion that killed five people at the crowded entrance to
the main bus station, said Assistant Superintendent Toyin Gbagedesin. Witnesses
said a young male suicide bomber killed only himself when his device exploded
prematurely.
Gbagedesin
says 41 people were wounded in the bus station explosion. The bomber appeared
to be about 14 years old.
Nigeria's
Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, is suspected of being behind the attacks.
It has used dozens of girls and women in recent suicide bombings in Nigeria and
neighboring Chad, Cameroon and Niger, raising fears it is using kidnap victims.
More
than 1,000 people have been killed since President Muhammadu Buhari was elected
in March with a pledge to annihilate the militants, whose 6-year-old uprising
has killed a total of about 20,000 people. Nearly 2 million have been driven
from their homes, some across borders.
Earlier
this year, troops from Chad and Nigeria drove the extremists out of some 25
towns held for months in what they had declared an Islamic caliphate. The
insurgents have returned to hit-and-run tactics and suicide bombings.
In
old bold attack last week, the extremists ambushed the lead vehicle in a convoy
carrying Nigeria's new chief of army staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai. One soldier
was killed and two wounded in a firefight in which the troops killed five
attackers and arrested five. 
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