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Just In! Suicide Bomber Kills 50 Worshippers In Mubi Mosque

This picture taken on March 5, 2015 shows an arial view of the burnt-out classrooms of a school in Chibok,in Northeastern Nigeria, from where Boko Haram Islamist fighters seized 276 teenagers on the evening of April 14, 2014. Nigeria's government said that work had begun to rebuild a school in the northeastern town of Chibok from where Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped more than 200 girls last year. Finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala laid the foundation stone at the Government Secondary School on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan, a statement from her office said. AFP PHOTO/SUNDAY AGHAEZE / AFP / Sunday Aghaeze (Photo credit should read SUNDAY AGHAEZE/AFP/Getty Images)

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At least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the north-eastern Nigerian town of Mubi, police say.

 

 

The mosque was packed with worshippers during morning prayers when the bomber struck in Adamawa state.

 

 

Witness Abubakar Sule told AFP news agency that it appears the bomber was part of the congregation.

 

 

No-one has said they were behind the bombing but the Islamist militants Boko Haram typically target crowded places in northern Nigeria.

 

 

Some 20,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram’s eight-year insurgency.

 

 

The BBC’s Ishaq Khalid reports Boko Haram militants have recently stepped up suicide bombings in Nigeria’s north-east after the military recaptured territories previously controlled by the group.

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