Boko Haram increasingly using kidnapped children in suicide attacks, says UNICEF

The Nigeria-based Islamic terror group Boko Haram is increasingly using abducted children in staging suicide attacks, the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) states in its latest report.

The U.N. humanitarian organisation notes that in 2014, Boko Haram used four children in suicide attacks. But in 2015, it used 44 children in such attacks.

UNICEF says that one in every five "suicide bombers" used by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a child, with 70 percent of them girls, many of whom had been kidnapped like the 276 Chibok schoolgirls two years ago, CBN News reports.