Nigeria Mosque Targeted in Deadly Suicide Bombing<br />President Muhammadu Buhari issued a statement calling the attack "very cruel and dastardly." Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group<br />that has waged war for the past eight years in Nigeria and in neighboring countries, has dispatched suicide bombers in a wave of attacks in the past year on mosques, checkpoints, markets and even camps for some of the nearly two million people uprooted from their homes because of the conflict.<br />21, 2017<br />ABUJA, Nigeria — A suicide bomber set off explosives on Tuesday during morning prayers in a small, crowded mosque in northeastern Nigeria in a deadly attack<br />that comes amid a raft of similar assaults on rural communities in the region.<br />Most of those bombers, many of whom are women and children, have been sent to attack Maiduguri, which is the capital of the Nigerian state of Borno<br />and was the city where the Boko Haram movement was founded.<br />Photographs circulated by the online news organization Sahara Reporters,<br />and said to be from the attack in Mubi, showed blood smeared across a concrete room where charred marks radiated from a hole in the wall, and damaged beams hanging from a ceiling that appeared to have been blown apart.<br />Times journalists spent weeks documenting the stories of people living along a desert<br />highway in Niger, interviewing more than 100 residents scattered by Boko Haram.<br />Adamu Ngoshe, a 62-year-old who sells cigarettes at a market in Mubi, said he went to the mosque after hearing about the<br />blast to check on the father of a fellow market vendor who was visiting from out of town and staying near the mosque.
