NIGERIA: A team of three suicide bombers, including a female bomber detonate explosives near northeast city of Maiduguri in attacks bearing hallmark of Boko Haram.
A female suicide bomber blew herself up and killed at least 27 others at a market in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, two local officials said, in an attack bearing the hallmark of Boko Haram.
Two more suicide bombers detonated their devices at the gates to a nearby refugee camp, wounding many people, an emergency services official said.
The regional Emergency Agency said 45 people were “critically injured”. The death toll could be as high as 30.
In all, at least 83 people were wounded in the three explosions near the city of Maiduguri, the epicentre of the long-running conflict between government forces and Boko Haram.
Nigeria’s military last year wrested back large swaths of territory from the armed group. But they have struck back with renewed zeal since June, killing at least 143 people before Tuesday’s bombings and weakening the army’s control.
