56 Dead After Two Female Suicide Bombers Attacked Nigerian Refugee Camp

Time reported yesterday that two female suicide bombers blew their selves in a refugee camp in northeast Nigeria, killing more than 50 individuals, according to Nigeria's health and rescue officials.  While the two females detonated the bomb successfully, a third woman bomber did not make it and got arrested by camp officials. The report said the captured bomber provided the officials essential information about other bombing plans helping them to formulate forward strategies for increasing the security level in the camp.

The twin explosion occurred Tuesday morning affecting some 50,000 people at the Dikwa refugee camp in the Borno State, 85 kilometers away from the biggest city in the region, Maiduguri. RT news source reported that the tragedy was disclosed a day after the explosion because the area's telephone line got disrupted.

Witnesses of the tragic incident said the suicide bombers were able to infiltrate the camp unnoticed. They detonated their bombs while almost everyone was having their breakfast on Tuesday morning.

"Between 6:00 am to 7:00 am when people were trying to line up for breakfast an explosive went off. In the ensuing confusion another blast went off again," said the survivor Mustapha Ali on Channels Television. He added that they did not have control of their movements while inside the camp because soldiers surrounded them and the government was the primary decision maker.

"We wish they would relocate us to Maiduguri because we are in a war zone," said Ali.

Most of the victims of the explosion were women and children. Emergency officials said there were 51 bodies buried on Wednesday through a mass burial. Medical professionals have also treated more than 70 people because of wounds and injuries.

The area is said to be a place of Boko Haram Islamists, a group responsible for a number of terror attacks in some of the villages of Nigeria and its neighboring states.