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Suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber on Wednesday attacked an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Dalori, Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. The chairman of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Satomi Ahmad, confirmed this to newsmen in Maiduguri. According to him, five persons – including the assailant – while 39 others sustained various degrees of injuries”.

Satomi explained that “a female suicide bomber infiltrated the IDPs camp”. He said many were caught unawares as the camp had been peaceful for a long time. The official noted that the second suicide bomber detonated improvised explosive device at the entrance of Dalori residential quarters and blew herself to pieces.

 

According to him, there was no casualty in the second attack. The chairman added that those wounded had been taken to the Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri.