Overview
- Police said an attacker detonated an explosive inside the Al-Adum mosque around 6 p.m. local time during evening prayers.
- At least five people were killed and about 35 injured, with casualties taken to two hospitals in Maiduguri.
- Officers cordoned off the area while explosive ordnance teams conducted operations and investigators collected evidence.
- Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum condemned the strike on a house of worship as barbaric and inhuman.
- Authorities reported no immediate claim of responsibility, noting the assault fits a long pattern of Boko Haram and ISWAP attacks on civilians and religious sites in northeast Nigeria.