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Women, Children Carry Out 75% of Suicide Attacks in Nigeria – UNICEF
Women, Children Carry Out 75% of Suicide Attacks in Nigeria – UNICEF
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At least 75 percent of all the suicide attacks that took place in Nigeria in 2015 were carried out by women or children, the UN children's agency UNICEF said... 26.05.2015, Sputnik International
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Women, Children Carry Out 75% of Suicide Attacks in Nigeria – UNICEF
At least 75 percent of all the suicide attacks that took place in Nigeria in 2015 were carried out by women or children, the UN children's agency UNICEF said Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In the first five months of 2015, 27 attacks took place in Nigeria, according to the UN agency. Nine suicide attacks since July 2014, have been conducted by children between the ages of 7 and 17.
Last week, a 10-year-old girl carried out a suicide attack in the city of Damaturu, in Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State. At least seven people were killed and more than 30 were injured in the bombing.
"Children are not instigating these suicide attacks; they are used intentionally by adults in the most horrific way," UNICEF Representative in Nigeria Jean Gough said in a press release.
Most of the suicide attacks are affiliated with the Boko Haram extremist group, which has been active in Nigeria since 2009.
