How Boko Haram Suicide bomber kills five outside mosque in Borno

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber targeting worshippers at a mosque in a remote village in northeast Nigeria killed five people and wounded dozens, a security source said on Saturday, in an area where Islamist insurgents are mounting attacks almost daily.

The source, who declined to be named, said Muslims in the village of Konduga, in the northeasterly Borno state, were observing Friday prayers when the pick-up truck approached.

A local vigilante group stopped the truck to inspect it and the bomber then detonated the bomb a few metres away from the mosque, he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Islamist group Boko Haram is likely to be the prime suspect.

In a separate attack, also on Friday evening, insurgents fired on a military base in the northeastern town of Damboa with rocket-propelled grenades, Gideon Jubrin, police spokesman for Borno state, said. He had no information on casualties.

Boko Haram Attacks: Faces of Nigerian refugees (Photos)

Boko Haram Islamist insurgents activities have really made life very cruel for many Nigerians especially those in the North-Eastern region of the country.

A Nigerian woman sifts corn flour as she prepares her evening meal in the refugee camp of Minawao, on the border of Nigeria at the extreme north of Cameroon, on March 29, 2014. The camp is about 130 kilometres east from the border. | AFP

ISLAMIST BOKO HARAM Call Nigerian Policemen "Women," Say Churches, Christians Are Their Targets

Nigeria Islamist Boko Haram sect in their songs called officers of Nigeria Police Force "women" while attacking Giwa barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State, on March 14, 2014. This is evident in the 24-minute video posted online by the sect, the Islamist insurgents demonstrated thier sophisticated and modern weapons at their disposal.

In the video, the sect can be heard singing: "Police, give us way, you are too weak and small to stop us, you are all women and we understand you.