(MENAFN)At least 50 people were killed at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday by a suicide bomber, in what is considered the biggest mass killing this year in a region that faces an insurgency by militant group Boko Haram.
"Some of the dead were in pieces beyond recognition." said a worshiper at the mosque in Mubi who was only escaping the blast because he was late for early morning prayers.
Although the government and military have said that since 2015 Boko Haram's eight-year insurgency is almost defeated, the group keeps attacking civilian and military targets.
According to calculations by Reuters, Tuesday's bombing brings the number killed in 2017 to at least 278. No one claimed the responsibility of the attack.
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