Nigeria: Children's Day - Child Suicide Bombers Top One-Year Record--Unicef

Reports collated by the United Nations Children's Fund suggest more children have been used as suicide bombers in the first five months of 2015 than the whole of last year.

"Children are not instigating these suicide attacks; they are used intentionally by adults in the most horrific way," said Jean Gough, UNICEF Representative in Nigeria, in comments marking Children's Day.

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