Published February 14, 2017
Police say a member of a civilian self-defense force has died while intercepting a suicide bomber at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria.
Police spokesman Victor Isukwu says the attack occurred early Tuesday near the University of Maiduguri, where five people died in a bombing earlier this month.
Isukwu says many others could have been killed if the self-defense member, a recent graduate of the university, had not intervened.
Maiduguri is the birthplace of the Boko Haram insurgency.
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