Death toll in Nigeria mosque bomb blast climbs to 50 - Police (Eds: Updates with new death toll)

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Mubi, Nigeria, November 21 (Infosplusgabon) - The death toll in the bomb blast at a mosque at Mubi, northeast Nigeria, on Tuesday morning, has climbed to 50, the Adamawa Police Command has said.

 

“We have 50 dead and we are now trying to get the exact number of those injured,” the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted tha Adamawa Police Command Public Relations Officer, Othman Abubakar, as saying.

 

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, had earlier put the death toll at 21. No group has claimed responsibility for the bomb blast but the terrorist Boko Haram group is active in the area.

 

The local media reported that a suicide bomber detonated his explosive at the packed mosque during the ‎early morning prayer at Mubi, Adamawa state.

 

Idris Garga, the northeast coordinator of NEMA, said: “A boy of about 17 years wearing a suicide vest entered the mosque along with other worshippers immediately after the prayers and detonated the bomb. Besides the eight (injured) transferred, others who are wounded are receiving treatment at various hospitals in Mubi North,” he added.

 

“As people converged on Massalacin Madina at Anguwan Shuwa to observe Subh (morning prayer), an unknown man rammed himself into the mosque with IEDs, killing many people,” a resident of the area had told Premium Times newspaper.

 

Adamawa, Borno and Yobe have been the most affected states by the Boko Haram insurgency that has caused about 100,000 deaths since 2009.

 

 

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