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About 20 killed in mosque bombing in northern Nigerian city, official says

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - About 20 people were killed in a bomb blast in a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday, an official at state emergency agency NEMA said.

Some 91 people were wounded, NEMA's Mohammed Kanar said.

(Reporting by Lanre Ola; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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