A suicide bombing targeting a major Shiite festival in
northeast Nigeria on Monday killed 15 people and injured some 50 others in a
city repeatedly attack by the Sunni Islamist group Boko Haram, a local cleric
told AFP.
“We lost 15 of our members in a suicide blast at the end of
our Ashura procession,” said
Mustapha Lawan Nasidi, the head of the Shiite community in
the targeted city of Potiskum in Yobe state. Vanguard reports that 50 people
were also injured and claimed that several others died when troops who deployed
to the scene opened fire. There was no immediate response from the military.
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