A suicide bomber detonated his explosive gear in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state at dawn on Friday, killing six people and wounding one other.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack that was carried out in the town of Damboa, though it bares the hallmarks of Boko Haram Islamists terror group.
Boko Haram has waged an insurgency since 2009 in an attempt to carve out a state based on sharia (Islamic law) in the northeast of Nigeria.
Army spokesman Sani Usman said there were two suicide bombers involved, one of whom failed to gain entry to the Damboa Central Mosque and detonated his load in the street outside, killing himself but causing no other casualties.
He said the second militant managed to get into a smaller mosque nearby and blew himself up there, killing six worshippers and wounding one other person.
The Nigerian army, aided by troops from neighbouring nationa, has over the past year retaken most of the territory lost to the Islamist militants.
