Madagali suicide bombings

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Madagali suicide bombings
Part of the Boko Haram insurgency
Madagali Madagali (Nigeria)
Location	Madagali, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Date	9 December 2016
Attack type	Suicide bombing
Deaths	57
Injured	177
Perpetrators	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Boko Haram

The Madagali suicide bombings occurred on 9 December 2016 when 2 women suicide bombers attack Madagali, a town in Nigeria.^[1] The attack killed at least 57 people and injured 177.^[2][3] Among those individuals injured 120 were reported to be children. "Officials have blamed the Boko Haram Islamic extremists."^[4]

See also[]

• List of Islamist terrorist attacks
• List of terrorist incidents in December 2016
• List of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL
• Number of terrorist incidents by country
• Timeline of ISIL-related events (2016)

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