Explosion hit Gamboru market area in Maiduguri as worshippers prepared for evening prayers.
On Wednesday, Borno State Police Command spokesman Nahum Daso confirmed that five people were killed and 35 others were wounded when a bomb exploded in a suspected suicide attack on a mosque in Borno state, in northeastern Nigeria.
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“Preliminary investigations suggest the incident may have been a suicide attack, based on the recovery of fragments of a suspected suicide vest and recorded witness statements,” Daso said, adding that investigations are continuing to determine the exact cause and circumstances.
The device exploded in the Gamboru market area of Maiduguri, the state capital, as worshippers were preparing to perform evening prayers. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Al-Adum mosque, where the explosion occurred at about 6 p.m. local time Wednesday.
The police spokesman said the area has been cordoned off and explosive ordnance disposal teams are carrying out clearance operations at the site. The victims were rushed to the Maiduguri University Teaching Hospital and the State Specialist Hospital.
A bomb blast has torn through a mosque in northeastern Nigeria killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more police say.
The explosion struck during evening prayers in the Gamboru market area of Maiduguri the capital of Borno state. Worshippers were inside the mosque… pic.twitter.com/p1IopAvE7O
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“Attacking a place of worship is a desecration of its sanctity at a time when Muslim faithful are performing acts of worship,” Borno state Gov. Babagana Zulum said, urging heightened security at places of worship and public spaces during festive periods.
Images circulating on social media showed the aftermath of the explosion, with people gathered in a market area, shouting and running, and clouds of dust hanging in the air.
Since 2009, northeastern Nigeria has been plagued by attacks by the jihadist group Boko Haram, violence that intensified from 2016 with the emergence of its splinter faction, the Islamic State West Africa Province, or ISWAP. Both groups seek to impose an Islamic-style state in the country, which is predominantly Muslim in the north and largely Christian in the south.
Boko Haram and ISWAP have killed more than 35,000 people and displaced about 2.7 million others, mostly in Nigeria but also in neighboring countries including Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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