Madagali suicide bombings
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Madagali suicide bombings | |
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Part of the Boko Haram insurgency | |
Location | Madagali, Adamawa State, Nigeria |
Date | 9 December 2016 |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
Deaths | 57 |
Injured | 177 |
Perpetrators | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
The Madagali suicide bombings occurred on 9 December 2016 when 2 women suicide bombers attack Madagali, a town in Nigeria. The attack killed at least 57 people and injured 177. Among those individuals injured 120 were reported to be children. "Officials have blamed the Boko Haram Islamic extremists."