Suicide attack hits University of Maiduguri

At least four people, including a university professor, were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide bomb attack on a university campus in northeast Nigeria, reports Al Jazeera.

The blast happened last week at a mosque in the staff quarters area of the University of Maiduguri, and is thought to have been carried out by a teenage girl, a local resident and a lecturer told AFP news agency. Borno state police spokesman Victor Isuku said that before the blast at the mosque, police on patrol shot a girl aged about 12, as she tried to get into the university at about 04:15 GMT. The improvised explosive device strapped to her body exploded, killing her instantly, he said. Shortly after that, a second explosion occurred in a mosque inside the university.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion will likely fall on the armed group Boko Haram, which has repeatedly used young women and girls as human bombs. Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from the Nigerian capital Abuja, said the violence was likely the outcome of Boko Haram losing ground in its strongest hideout, the Sambisa Forest, in the northeast of the country, which is now under military control.
Full report on the Al Jazeera site