The incident took place in the town of Gamboru, in Nigeria's Borno state near the border with Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, an area where the gang Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...has previously carried out a number of attacks.
Witnesses said the bombing took place as worshippers were attending morning prayers.
"I was on my way to dawn prayer, then I heard the sound of a loud bomb kaboom inside the mosque," aid worker Ali Mustapha told Rooters news agency.
"The mosque was destroyed and burned," added Mustapha.
"After some hours, when we came to evacuate the people, we saw 11 corpses, with the jacket wallah making [the total number of dead] 12."