Suicide blast kills 30 in northeastern Nigeria -- local police

A suicide bmob blast early Tuesday killed 30 people inside a local mosque in the northeastern Nigerian town of Mubi, the police said.

Othman Abubakar, a spokesman for the police, told reporters the dawn attack was perpetrated by an unidentified teenage boy who set off the suicide vest he wore to the mosque in Kunu Araha, a suburb town of Mubi in the northern state of Adamawa.

"Immediately after the prayers, he detonated the bomb," Abubakar said. "Many of the wounded are receiving treatment at various hospitals in Mubi north where the attack occurred."

(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)