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Boko Haram Increasingly Using Children In Suicide Bombings, UNICEF Says

The horrifying pattern is a sign of shifting strategy for the militant group, now in its eighth year of conflict. Twenty-seven children were used in suicide attacks in the first three months of 2017.

Boko Haram militants have used 27 children to carry out suicide bombing attacks in the first three months of this year in Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, according to a new report from UNICEF.

This marks a major increase — 30 children were used in bombings for

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