Nigeria’s IDP camp hit by suicide bombers killing at least 70

More than 70 people have been killed in a double suicide attack at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeast Nigeria, local officials told Al Jazeera. The twin suicide bombings in Borno state on Tuesday morning, reportedly committed by women, also left 78 people injured, officials added. The bombings occurred at a camp in the town of Dikwa, some 80km northeast of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram. A woman was reportedly arrested who had refused to detonate her bomb after traveling to the camp from a nearby town with two other bombers. She apparently thought her parents would be there thus she refused to detonate her own bomb.

The camp is home to 50,000 people driven from their homes by the armed group, whose six-year-old insurgency has killed 20,000 people and made 2.5 million homeless.

Source: Aljazeera