Boko Haram child "suicide bombings"
have surged 11-fold in West Africa in the last year, with children
as young as eight, mostly girls, detonating bombs in schools and markets,
a leading charity has said.
One in every five "suicide
bombers" used by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a
child, a report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) said .
Suicide bombings have spread beyond Nigeria's borders, with
an increasing number of deadly attacks carried out by children with explosives
hidden under their clothes or in baskets.
"The use of children, especially girls, as so-called
suicide bombers has become a defining and alarming feature of this
conflict," Laurent Duvillier, regional spokesman for UNICEF, told the
Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday.
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