Islamist extremists from Boko Haram struck a city and a town in northeastern Nigeria with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers Monday, killing at least 80 people, witnesses said.
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Police also said that a bomb targeting a mosque in the city also killed at least 20 more people.
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Maiduguri, the city under attack, is the birthplace of Boko Haram, which emerged as a much more radical entity after Nigerian security forces launched an all-out assault on their compound in the city, killing 700 people in 2009.
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“The two female bombers killed at least 30 people in the twin blasts in the market”, Maina Ularamu, a community leader and former chairman of Madagali local government, told AFP. Two women were believed to have blown themselves up near a busy bus station at 9 am on Monday morning, with local officials confirming the attack, but not disclosing the number of casualties.
On Friday, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said he would work to convince Boko Haram to lay down their arms and end their armed rebellion.
Maiduguri, a city of about 1 million people, now hosts nearly as many refugees, among 2.5 million people driven from their homes in the 6-year-old uprising.
It has killed some 13,000 people and kidnapped hundreds, with surrounding countries such as Niger, Chad and Cameroon affected. This attack was only the latest in several attempts to retake Maiduguri-the point of origin for the Boko Haram jihadist movement.
According to the Nigerian national newspaper THISDAY, Boko Haram militants raided the Kimba village, located in southern Borno State, an area controlled by the rebels.
Soldiers arrested seven Boko Haram bomb specialists, according to PRNigeria, which issues government statements.
He said despite all the efforts by the military, the Boko Haram insurgents still sneaked their way into the public to cause harm, adding that a screening exercise should be conducted within Madagali and environs. A second woman jumped into the fray and detonated herself. Sajoh said information available to him indicated that the injured were receiving treatment in hospitals at Madagali and Mubi while those with severe injuries were taken to the Federal Medical Centre in Yola. “Unfortunately three of them detonated their Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at various places Monday morning killing 26 Persons and injuring 85 others”, Adeosun said.
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At the Specialist’s Hospital Maiduguri where the Chief Medical Director, Dr Laraba Bello, told the governor that 34 corpses were deposited from the scenes of the blasts, 85 injured persons were also admitted out of which six were pregnant women. A soldier who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to reporters said troops fired against the militants who were firing rocket-propelled grenades and many people were caught in the crossfire.
