More than 70 people have been killed in a double suicide attack at a
camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeast Nigeria.
The twin suicide bombings in Borno state on Tuesday morning -
reportedly committed by women - also left 78 people injured.
Information about the attacks was first reported by officials on Wednesday night.
The bombings occurred at a camp in the town of Dikwa, some 80km northeast of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram.
Ahmed Satomi, of the State Management Agency, said
officials had arrested one woman who had refused to detonate a bomb
after travelling to the camp from a nearby town with two other bombers.
"The one they arrested alive, she confessed. She feel that her
parents would come and that's why she refused to detonate her own bomb,"
Satomi said.
The camp is home to 50,000 people driven from their homes by the
armed group, whose six-year-old insurgency has killed 20,000 people and
made 2.5 million homeless.
IDP camp attacks
Boko Haram, which has increasingly used suicide and bomb attacks as
Nigeria's military pushes them out of territories they once controlled,
has hit IDP camps before.
On September 11 last year, seven people were killed when an
improvised explosive device went off at the Malkohi camp, near Yola, in
neighbouring Adamawa state.
The camp has been used to house kidnapped women and children rescued by the military.
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