SAN FRANCISCO, December 01, (THEWILL) – Two female suicide bombers have blown themselves up at a popular Monday morning market in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, killing dozens.
The attack is coming barely a week after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up inside the same market, killing dozens.
The suicide attack occurred a few minutes before midday.
Military and emergency personnel have cordoned off the market, while the youth vigilante group has started stopping and searching vehicles for bombs. The stop and search exercise is however aversely affecting the flow of vehicular traffic in the city.
Six killed, 36 Wounded
Sources at the Borno Specialists Hospital in Maiduguri where the victims of the bomb attack were taken said six persons were brought in dead while thirty-six others had injuries.
A soldier who spoke to journalists anonymously gave an insight into the bombing attack at the market.
The personnel said a lone female suicide bomber refused to submit herself for search at the gate of the market and was shoved aside by a member of the civilian JTF (Youth vigilante). “She must have detonated the bomb in the process as it immediately went off tearing her into pieces and cutting off an arm of the civilian JTF,” the ranking soldier said.
Another security source said the second explosion occurred few minutes later. The source said the second female suicide bomber ran into a shop and detonated her vest as the owner of the shop was pushing her out. Both died in the explosion.
“… She ran into a shop with the explosive on her and while the shop owner was dragging her out, a bomb exploded killing them both,’ the source added.
Borno State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Clement Adoda, confirmed to journalists in a phone chat late Monday that the two suicide bombers and four persons died in the blast.
