2 female bombers kill 56 in northeast Nigerian refugee camp

At least 35 people were killed in a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp for people displaced by Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, the head of the Borno state emergency management agency told AFP.

The AP reports that health officials are blaming “extremists” for the attack in the town of Dikwa, located in the Borno state in the northeastern part of the country, which also wounded 78 people.

STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images Boko Haram attacks have terrorized portions of Nigeria.

The kidnapping were blamed on Boko Haram, which has since sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group based in Syria and Iraq.

The camp has been used to house kidnapped women and children rescued by the military.

At least sixty people have been killed in two separate attacks on the civilians in Borno State this week, vigilante and government officials confirmed.

The incident occurred when the IDPs queued up to collect their morning food in the camp, which accommodates over 50,000 people displaced by the Boko Haram terrorism.

“The villagers were gathered for the wake when two suicide attackers joined them, pretending to be family members”, said the source. Boko Haram hit a Nigerian IDP camp for the first time in September, in the Adamawa state capital of Yola.

The governor of neighbouring Cameroon’s Far North province said another two suicide bombers believed to have come from Nigeria on Wednesday killed 10 people and injured 40 in a border village.