Child Suicide Bombings Surge in Boko Haram Conflict
Last Updated: April 12, 2017 9:09 AM
Lisa Schlein
GENEVA —
The United Nations Children’s Fund says there has been an alarming surge in the number of children being used as suicide bombers by the militant Boko Haram in the conflict engulfing the Lake Chad region in West Africa.
Data gathered by the UN children’s fund shows children were used as suicide bombers in 27 attacks in the first quarter of 2017. That is three times more than during the same period last year and nearly the same number as the whole of 2016.
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