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1st LD: Nearly 60 people killed in NE Nigeria suicide attacks

Xinhua, February 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nearly 60 people were killed in twin suicide bomb attacks at a refugee camp in the Dikwa town, some 90 km from the city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, local officials said Wednesday.

Satomi Ahmad, chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency, said two female suicide bombers on Tuesday sneaked into an internally displaced persons camp and detonated themselves in the middle of it, adding that 78 people were injured. Endit