Alwaght-At least 60 people were killed in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday when two female terrorists blew themselves up in a refugee camp.
The tragedy at the Dikwa refugee camp was only disclosed Wednesday because of a "disrpupted telephone line". Health officials say at least 78 more people were wounded in the twin bombing.
Local security sources suspect Boko Haram is behind the latest attack but an official claim of responsibility has yet to be announced. The explosions blasted through an internally displaced person camp fleeing resurgence in Boko Haram violence.
Some 50,000 people currently live at the Dikwa camp in the Borno State. The camp is located just 85 kilometers from Maiduguri, the biggest city in the region and birthplace of Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group.
A local security source said it remained unclear how the attackers infiltrated the camp which is heavily guarded by the army.
The Nigerian government has faced a rise in criticism from senators angry at the national response to the re-emergence of Boko Haram terrorists.
Senator Bashir Garbai said the Government had been covering-up their failures in the war against the terrorists.
He said this week: “Just yesterday, another adjourning villages of Alomari, Malari and Mmube Mairi were attacked, leaving scores dead and injured before setting their houses ablaze.
"So who are we deceiving?
“As you can see, my people have lost everything, including their livestock, grains and other food items in the presence of our military, yet the military claimed that they have defeated Boko Haram which is not true”
The criticism comes after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said in December 2015 the military had “technically” defeated Boko Haram.
According to an AFP count, Boko Haram terrorists have killed more than 1,650 people since the inauguration of Buhari in May 2015.
Earlier this week, Nigeria announced that their intelligence officers had arrested a top-ranked recruiter for the ISIS terror group.
The arrest comes a year after the leader of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, Abubakar Shekau, pledged allegiance to ISIS terrorist group ringleader in Syria and Iraq, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
They also warned that Nigerians had been flooding into Libya to go to ISIS-sponsored training camps.
