The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said suicide bombers on Wednesday killed two people and wounded 11 others at a camp in Niger housing thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram violence.
UNHCR said two women entered the camp in Kabelawa, around 50 km north of the border with Nigeria, and joined a group of young people before detonating suicide belts just before midnight on Wednesday.
“The explosion killed two young inhabitants of the camp, a male and a female, as well as the two women. 11 others were injured, two seriously,” Reuters quoted the UN agency as saying in a statement.
Boko Haram launches frequent cross-border raids from its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria in its bid to carve out an Islamic caliphate, though most recent suicide attacks have targeted towns in northern Cameroon.
The group’s eight-year insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people in the Lake Chad region and displaced 2.7 million.
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