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Dikwa suicide bombings

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Non-fatal injuries
  
78

Location
  
Borno State, Nigeria

Attack type
  
Suicide attack

Date
  
9 February 2016

Total number of deaths
  
60

Location
  
Dikwa

Dikwa suicide bombings

Perpetrators
  
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Boko Haram

Similar
  
Gwoza massacre, 2011 Abuja United Nations b, 2014 Jos bombings, 2014 Gombe bus station bo, 2014 Kano bombing

On February 9, 2016, two female suicide bombers affiliated with Boko Haram killed more than 60 people and injured 78 others at a camp for displaced people in Dikwa, Nigeria.

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