Nigeria: Borno Deputy Governor, Shehu, Survive Blast

A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Maiduguri where the deputy governor Alhaji Zanna Umar Mustapha and the Shehu Alhaji Ibn Abubakar Umar Garbai Elkanemi were worshipping at the time, left five people dead.

Bomb blast scene in Maiduguri (file photo)

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