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Chibok: Deadly Suicide Blasts Hit North-Eastern Nigerian Town

January 27, 2016 | Africa
January 27, 2016

ICC Note: Suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers have struck Chibok, killing 13 people and injuring 30. On Monday, a bombing in the northern Cameroon town of Bodo killed 25 people. The assaults demonstrate Boko Haram’s continuing deadliness and transformation into a guerrilla fighting unit. Chibok is the local government area in Borno State from which Boko Haram abducted nearly 300 mostly Christian girls in April 2014. Most of the girls still remain missing.

1/27/16 Chibok, Nigeria (BBC) – Suicide bombers have hit the north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok during market day, killing at least 13 people, reports said.

At least three attackers were involved, some of them female, witnesses said. More than 30 people were injured.

It is not yet known who was behind the attack.

But suspicion is likely to fall on militants from the Boko Haram Islamist group, who abducted more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in 2014.

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