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.
He said 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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