BOKO HARAM SUICIDE BOMBERS ATTACK INTERNALY DISPLACED PERSONS CAMP IN YOLA.


PHOTO of a bomb blast
BOMB BLAST.

A bomb blast hit a Nigerian internally displaced persons (IDP) camp on Friday morning on the outskirts of Adamawa state capital Yola in the northeast of the country, a spokesman for the national Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.


The blast is the first such attack on an IDP camp in Nigeria and went off at a camp at a school in the hamlet of Malkohi, spokesman Manzo Ezekiel of the National Emergency Management Agency said.

The six-year insurgency waged by Islamist jihadi group Boko Haram has displaced about 2.1 million people and killed thousands.

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