The suicide bombing came just days after another attack there earlier in the week.Gov. Midjiyawa Bakari said he was implementing strict measures after stepped up security failed to thwart the second attack.
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Boko Haram attacks in Chad and Niger have claimed dozens of lives in the past weeks. “Boko Haram’s unconscionable use of children as suicide bombers and indiscriminate targeting of men, women and children highlights the group’s senseless brutality”, State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner said in a statement.
Members of Boko Haram attacked two villages in northern Cameroon and burned down a Catholic church, according to a report published by Agence France-Presse.
An official at the scene said he had counted at least 12 bodies shortly after the attack.
Boko Haram has escalated its six-year-old campaign to impose Islamic law on Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and largest oil-producing nation. A nurse from a local hospital confirmed to AFP under condition of anonymity the death toll, adding that 47 people were injured, many of them in critical condition. “Eight of the dead are women”.
Efforts are being made to establish the whereabouts of the missing aid workers and secure their release if they are being held, O’Brien said.
On Wednesday, 13 people were killed in twin bombings in a central market and in a nearby neighbourhood. That attack happened during the Muslim Eid festival, which marks the end of Ramadan. Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states in the troubled northeast have suffered the brunt of the Boko Haram militancy.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the United States to help Nigeria by plugging all the loopholes that had been used by government officials to steal the country’s assets rather than help with foreign aids.
