Bomb Blast Hits Camp for Nigerians Displaced by Boko Haram

A bomb was exploded at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) near Yola in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa. The Friday morning blast is reportedly the first attack on an IDP camp since the Boko Haram insurgency started 2009, uprooting more than two million people and killing and injuring several thousand more.

Internally displaced persons in the Gombe camp in Nigeria.

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