Suicide Bombers Strikes Again In Nigeria

Barely 10 days after suicide bombers of Boko Haram attacked the village of Dalori in Nigeria, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a northeastern Nigerian refugee camp, killing more than 70 people.

The incident took place in Dikwa, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, on Tuesday morning and is believed to be a reprisal for a military strike on Boko Haram. A third woman bomber was arrested and gave officials information about other planned bombings that helped them increase security at the camp, said an official of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency. Ahmed Satomi, of the State Management Agency, told Al Jazeera officials had arrested one woman who had refused to detonate a bomb after travelling to the camp from a nearby town with two other bombers."The one they arrested alive, she confessed. She feel that her parents would come and that's why she refused to detonate her own bomb," Satomi said.

The camp in Dikwa is currently home to people from six local government areas in Borno: Dikwa itself, Gamboru Ngala, on the border with Cameroon, and the towns of Marte, Kalabalge, Bama and Mafa. The camp which houses around 50,000 people, who were driven from their homes by the Boko Haram Islamic uprising, was left shattered from the twin bombings.

Nigeria's Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, deputizing for President Muhammadu Buhari who has been on holiday, described it as "regrettable that the heartless terrorists chose to unleash their wickedness on people who were taking refuge from previous acts of destruction in their homes". He promised those behind the attack would be hunted down and ordered that "formidable security in and around the IDP camps in the country be beefed up and renewed measures put in place to guard against future occurrences".

The attacks, which are considered to be the insurgent moves by the  Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram, comes after 86 people were killed, including children by an attack made by the same group, last month, on 30th January. The recent suicide bomb attacks used by Boko Haram are reportedly on the rise because of the Nigerian government pushing them out of territories they once controlled.

The Boko Haram insurgency has left at least 17,000 people dead and forced more than 2.6 million from their homes in nearly seven years of violence that has also spread to neighboring countries of Nigeria.