A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people on Tuesday (March 10) in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, military and hospital sources said, three days after a multiple bomb attack in the city killed more than 50.
The site of suicide bombing
Maiduguri is the birthplace of radical Islamist Boko Haram insurgents who have been fighting for six years to revive a medieval Islamic caliphate in northeast Nigeria. The militants tried to seize the city at the end of January, killing more than 100 people in the attack, and again in early February.
On Tuesday, a loud blast rocked Maiduguri just after 4 p.m. (1500 GMT) and a military source at the scene said a woman had detonated her bomb at a roundabout near the Monday Market, which has been attacked numerous times before.
A source at the State Specialist Hospital said 12 corpses had been brought to the morgue.
But an unidentified witness to the attack said he believed the death toll would climb higher.
(Ventuno)