In targeted suicide bomb attacks conducted by allegedly Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria on a group of people returning after the Eid celebrations on Saturday evening left 31 people dead. The gory incident happened in the town of Damboa in Borno state, northeast of Nigeria.
The suicide bombings were followed by rocket-propelled grenade explosions on the crowd that gathered there on the place of suicide bombings, which raised the death toll to 31. Militia leader Babukora told AFP that there had been two suicide attacks and rocket-propelled grenade explosions in Damboa the previous night which killed 31 people and left several others injured.
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Kolo informed the media that the two suicide bombers detonated their explosives in Shuwari and nearby Abachari neighbourhoods in the town around 10:45 PM (21:45GMT) which killed 6 residents and he classified this terror act as a work of Boko Haram. A local official has said that the death toll of 31 may increase and added that most of the deaths were caused by rocket projectiles.
Boko Haram had employed young girls as suicide bombers in mosques, markets and camps housing people displaced by the 9-year insurgency which had devasted Nigeria’s Northeast.
Twin suicide blasts on May 1, which had targeted a mosque and a nearby market in the town of Mubi near Adamawa state killed about 86 people.
With the continuous attacks on the civilians by Boko Haram, an Islamic terror organisation, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise of wiping them out has become a farce. He promised the people of Nigeria while coming to power in 2015 that he would stamp out Boko Haram.
On February 19, the Boko Haram terrorists stormed the Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi and seized over 100 school girls exactly as in the much-outraged incident of girls’ abduction in Chibok in 2014.
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