November 2015 Yola bombing

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On 17 November 2015, a suicide bombing occurred at a vegetable market in Yola, Adamawa State, eastern Nigeria. [1] Over 30 people were killed and 80 others injured as traders in the city were closing for the day. [1]

Jihadist group Boko Haram - whose insurgency began in 2009 and peaked in the mid-2010s - are suspected of being the perpetrators of this attack and many others in Adamawa State. [1] [2] These include a bombing at an internally displaced persons camp in Yola in September 2015, [2] [1] as well as those in Mubi in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2018.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Nigeria blast: Yola market explosion kills 30
  2. 1 2 Nigeria bomb blast hits Yola camp for Boko Haram refugees