10 dead in northeast Nigeria bombing
Ten people were killed Friday in a bomb attack at a market in the town of Gombi, Nigeria's restive northeastern region.
Witnesses said over two dozen people were also injured when a young boy of about 12 years of age blew up his explosives at the crowded grain market of the town, north of the city of Yola, the capital of Adamawa State.
Adamawa is one of three Nigerian states hardest hit by the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists. Borno and Yobe are the other two states.
According to an AFP count, Boko Haram terrorists have killed more than 1,650 people since the inauguration of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in May 2015.
President Buhari, who promised to put an end to the militancy, said last month that Boko Haram had been “technically” defeated. The militants, however, continue to carry out assaults across the region.
In another attack on January 27 in the city of Chibok, Borno State, more than a dozen people died.
Chibok is the city where Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April 2014.
Boko Haram has also spread its attacks from northeastern Nigeria, its traditional stronghold, into neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
On Thursday, a double bombing at a school in the town of Kerawa, northern Cameroon, left at least four people dead.
Since 2009, some 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million others displaced by the Boko Haram militancy.
The terrorists recently pledged allegiance to the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, which is primarily operating in Syria and Iraq.
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