Three people were killed and two seriously injured on Friday evening in a suicide bombing by a teenage girl in northeastern Nigeria, where jihadist group Boko Haram recently stepped up its attacks, humanitarian sources told AFP and safe.
"We evacuated three bodies and two seriously injured people," said Abubakar Mohammed, an aid worker, after the suicide attack in the town of Konduga, 38 kilometers from the regional capital Maiduguri, in Borno state. .
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The suicide bomber, who is said to be around 17, activated her explosives in the middle of a group of men gathered near the home of a local leader, said Ibrahim Liman, head of a pro-government militia, who communicated to AFP the same results.
The mark of Boko Haram
This suicide bombing bears the mark of the jihadist group Boko Haram, which has used female suicide bombers to carry out attacks against civilians in this region since the start of the insurgency in 2009. Last year, 30 people were killed by three Boko Haram suicide bombers in the same town of Konduga.
Friday's attack comes a week after the kidnapping of hundreds of children and adolescents by criminals for Boko Haram in the north-west of the country, a region located hundreds of kilometers from the group's stronghold jihadist.
On Friday, 344 of the boys were released after negotiations with the authorities and were reunited with their families, but the number of victims still at the hands of the kidnappers remained unclear on Saturday.
This massive kidnapping moved the whole planet, and rekindled the memory of the kidnapping by Boko Haram of more than 200 young girls in Chibok in 2014.
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At the end of November, the jihadist group had also killed at least 76 farmers working in a field not far from Maiduguri, the most violent attack this year against civilians, according to the UN.
Boko Haram and its dissident branch, the Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) group, have claimed more than 36,000 lives in ten years of conflict and two million people still cannot return to their homes.