Facebook activates safety check in Nigeria after Yola blast

Facebook has activated its safety check feature after a suicide attack killed 32 people in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Yola.

 

The social networking site had been criticised for activating the feature for the attack in Paris on Friday but not for the attack in Beirut the day before.

Before the Paris attack, the feature was only used in natural disasters.

The safety check allows people to inform their contacts they are safe.The system was first used earlier this year during the Nepal earthquake.

 

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the Yola Safety Check in a Facebook post but added "unfortunately, these kinds of events are all too common, so I won't post about all of them."