15 Die and 20 Injured in Mubi Mosque Bomb Blast

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 15 people died with 20 injured in Mubi Mosque bomb blast on Tuesday.

Mr Idris Garga, North East Coordinator of the agency stated this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Mubi. “So far 15 people are killed and about 20 sustained different degrees of injuries in the Mubi Mosque bomb blast,” Garga said.
He said that suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers carried out the attack. He said the attack targeted Muslims worshipers performing morning prayers.
Mr Haruna Hamman-Furo, Executive Secretary of the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA) also confirmed that 15 people were killed and several others injured due to the blast.
Similarly Boko Haram insurgents have beheaded six farmers at Dimge plantation in the Mafa Local Government Area of Borno. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the killing is the latest in a string of attacks in the violence-wracked North-east, where more than 20,000 people have been killed in nine years of insurgency.
The killing occurred on Sunday, while the farmers worked on their farms in the plantation, a witness, Jiddah Ahmad, told a NAN correspondent in Jere town, near Maiduguri on Tuesday.
Ahmad a younger brother to one of the slain farmers, said the insurgents abducted seven farmers as they worked on their farms and slaughtered six of them in a nearby bush adding said that two of the victims were from Lawanti Gongulon Village in Jere.
According to him, the remaining four are from Masu Community in the Mafa Local Government Area of the state. “The insurgents shot my brother before beheading him and beheaded another farmer on the same spot while an old farmer was set free, when they went to fetch water at a river.