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  • Friday ,12 February 2016
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More than 60 people killed in suicide bombs in Nigeria: Officials

By-Ahram

Copts and Poliltical Islam

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Friday ,12 February 2016

More than 60 people killed in suicide bombs in Nigeria: Officials

More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency of the militant Boko Haram group, a military and emergency official said on Wednesday.More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency of the militant Boko Haram group, a military and emergency official said on Wednesday.

The attack took place some 85 km (50 miles) outside the capital of Borno state, centre of the seven-year insurgency, they said. It took place on Tuesday, but a breakdown in the telephone system had prevented the information being made public earlier.