Boko Haram: One in Five Suicide Attacks Carried Out by Children, Says UNICEF
12th April 2016
Boko Haram’s use of child suicide bombers in the Nigeria regional conflict has increased ten-fold in the past year, according to a new Unicef report.
Nearly one in five suicide attacks orchestrated by Boko Haram are now carried out by children, more than 75 per cent of which are performed by girls.
Unicef’s report, Beyond Chibok, released two years after Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls in the area, shows that the number of children involved in suicide attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger increased from four to 44 in the space of a year.