Facebook activates the new safety feature after bombing in Nigeria

Facebook has activated its “Security Test” attribute for the very first time in Nigeria, following a bombing probably carried out by Boko Haram killed more than 50. “We have activated Security Assess again following the bombing in Nigeria this evening,” cofounder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on the website.

The social network had come under criticism from those caught up in last Thursday’s blasts in Beirut that they are not offered the service but those in Friday’s Paris assaults were. The tool enables users to assess whether buddies are safe after strikes or natural disasters like earthquakes.
Zuckerberg said in the weekend the attribute could be used more extensively as time goes on. Yesterday night’s bombing in a busy lorry park in Yola, northeast Nigeria, was the very first strike this month and left at least 32 dead and some 80 others injured. The explosion bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram Islamists, that have repeatedly hit civilian “soft targets” in their six-year insurgency.