Nigeria - At least five people have been reported killed by a suicide bomber in Amarwa village, Konduga local government area of Borno State on Thursday.
Amarwa is about 20 kilometres from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the capital of Borno.
A top security source confirmed that the attacker, a male suicide bomber, detonated his explosives in the midst of people and killed three villagers.
A militia Ibrahim Liman told AFP that the suicide bomber went to a provisions shop holding a black plastic bag around 11:30 am (1030 GMT) and asked the shopkeeper if he would buy grains but the shopkeeper said he was not interested.
“The bomber then walked to a group of people chatting nearby and detonated the explosives concealed in the bag he was carrying,” he said.
Amarwa has suffered several Boko Haram attacks in the past eight years in a conflict that has claimed at least 20,000 lives and displaced 2.6 million people.
At least 13 others were injured in the attack.
It was gathered that all the wounded people have been evacuated to University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).
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