Six people at a mosque in Nigeria killed by Boko Haram

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Suicide attacks by two Boko Haram militants killed six people in the northern city of Damboa, Nigeria, the Nigerian military said Friday.

The first attacker targeted the Damboa Central Mosque early Friday morning, but could not gain entry to the building, the officials said. He was “obviously frustrated” and proceeded to detonate the bomb. He died without injuring any others.

The second attacker detonated a bomb at a smaller mosque, killing six worshippers and himself in the attack.

The Nigerian military suspects that Boko Haram is also responsible for an attack on the village Gaskeri on Thursday night that left
three people dead.

Boko Haram is an extremist Sunni organization that launches regular offensives in Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon with the ultimate goal of setting up a fundamentalist theocracy under a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

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