Explosion in camp kills 7, wounds 13

Seven people were killed in an explosion Friday at a Nigerian camp for people displaced by Islamic extremist attacks, an official said.

Thirteen people were also wounded by the explosion in a tent in the Malkohi camp in the outskirts of Yola, capital of Adamawa state in northeast Nigeria, said Saad Bello, the state’s National Emergency Management Agency co-ordinator.

The blast was caused by an improvised explosive device left near the camp’s central store, police commissioner Gabriel Adaji said.

No group claimed responsibility for the blast, but suspicion has fallen on the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, whose uprising has caused the deaths of an estimated 20,000 people since 2009.