Huge suicide bomb blast : 12 Killed,Several injured…
Twelve people were killed,several inured after four suicide bombers struck in the regional capital of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, rescue workers said.
Two men and two women blew themselves up in the Muna neighbourhood at around 1700 GMT yesterday, the chief security officer of Borno State’s emergency response agency, Bello Dambatta, said.
“The total people who died in these four suicide bombings is 12, 16 including the bombers,” he told .
“Twenty-two people were taken to the Borno State Specialist Hospital for treatment to various injuries.”he added.
The first suicide bomber blew himself up among people conducting an evening prayer, killing seven, Dambatta said.
A suicide bomber then entered a house before setting off explosives, killing a pregnant woman and her child.
The other two suicide bombers blew themselves up before reaching their targets, he added.
The Islamist extremists of Boko Haram have carried out a eight-year campaign of violence in Nigeria’s northeast.
The jihadist group does not always claim responsibility for attacks, but the method used in Wednesday’s attack ‘multiple suicide bombings’ is a common tactic.
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