ICC Note: Sources report between two and four people killed in a suicide bombing of a government building in Maiduguri, Nigeria in what appears like a Boko Haram attack. The blast wounded another 19 people in the capital city of Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast, a place where the militant Islamist terror group used to hold its headquarters. Boko Haram continues to wage a brutal and tireless insurgency in northern Nigeria, lately reverting to unconventional warfare tactics such as suicide bombings where they regularly employ young girls for this gruesome mission. Every time a suicide bombing occurs in northern Nigeria, the event reminds us to remember the 219 missing Chibok girls who have been gone for more than two years after Boko Haram gunmen abducted 279 from a government school in 2014. That number of mostly Christian girls represents just a fraction of the thousands of women and children Boko Haram has kidnapped over the past seven years, thousands of whom remain in captivity.

5/13/16 Maiduguri, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bombing at a government compound in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed at least five people and wounded 19 on Thursday, residents and hospital workers said.

A Reuters reporter saw rescue workers loading five bodies on a truck outside the compound, which is home to several government offices. The bombing happened at its gate.

The attack in the city centre looked like the handiwork of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has been waging an insurgency in the north for seven years, killing thousands of people and displacing 2.1 million.

Boko Haram has staged suicide bombings inside Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and the heartland of their insurgency to set up a fundamentalist Islamic state.

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