No fewer than 58 persons were killed on Tuesday when suicide bombers hit the Internally Displaced Persons camp in Dikwa, Borno State.
Reports also have it that 78 persons were injured in the attack.
The casualty figure was confirmed by officials of emergency and response agencies.
The incident occurred when the IDPs queued up to collect their morning food in the camp, which accommodates over 50,000 people displaced by the Boko Haram terrorism.
The Zonal Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency in the North East, Mohammed Kanar, said some of the dead have been buried, while the injured have been moved to medical facilities for adequate treatments.
In the last major attack on Borno State, the Boko Haram insurgents had attempted hitting the camp.
They were however prevented from doing so by the military.
Three of them, with explosives strapped to their bodies, were killed before they could reach the camp.
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