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Five Dead, 15 Injured In Maiduguri Suicide Bomb Attack

Five people have been confirmed dead and 15 others injured after two suicide bombers attacked a hospital in Molai area of Maiduguri, the capital of … Continue reading Five Dead, 15 Injured In Maiduguri Suicide Bomb Attack


Twin Blasts Recorded In Maiduguri

bomb blastFive people have been confirmed dead and 15 others injured after two suicide bombers attacked a hospital in Molai area of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria.

The two women tried to get into a hospital but were stopped by security guards at the gate and blew themselves up, witnesses said.

“We evacuated the charred bodies of the two security guards, another civilian and the two bombers,” said Auwal Mohammed, a member of the community in Molai, where the hospital is situated.

Conflicting death tolls continue to trail the suicide bombing incident.

Eyewitness accounts say that 3 people were killed while 15 others were injured.

However, the North-East Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mr. Mohammed Kanar, says that five people died in the incident.

Mr. Kanar added that one issue that continues to affect rescue efforts after terrorists attacks is that of crowd control.

President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the military hierarchy to move the military command centre to the troubled northestern town in order to curb the Boko Haram menace after his inauguration last month.

However, more than 100 people have reportedly been killed in northeast Nigeria in the past few weeks in a spate of bombings, mostly in Maiduguri.

A source at the mortuary of Borno State hospital in Maiduguri told Reuters that it had received three corpses after the blast. Another hospital source said 16 people injured in the attack had been brought in.

President Buhari has held talks with counterparts in neighbouring countries to set up a joint force to tackle the insurgents and he is planning to visit Cameroon later this month to discuss deeper collaboration.

Buhari is also due to visit U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on July 20 and the fight against Boko Haram is likely to be high on the agenda.