Maiduguri, Nigeria, Dec 25, 2025 (AFP) - Police suspect suicide bomber behind Nigeria's deadly mosque blast

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2025-12-25
Nigeria police said Thursday that they suspected a suicide bomber was behind the blast that killed several worshippers in a mosque on Christmas eve in the country's northeastern Borno state. A police spokesman put the death toll at five, with 35 wounded. A witness on Wednesday told AFP that eight people were killed. The bomb went off inside the crowded Al-Adum Juma'at Mosque at Gamboru market in the capital city of Maiduguri, as Muslim faithful g......
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