Three people have been confirmed dead in Sunday’s morning bomb explosion in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as two suicide bombers, a male and female detonated their explosives.
An official of the local vigilante called Civilian-JTF, who are spearheading the rescue and evacuation of victims, confirmed the death to journalists.
“So far, three persons are dead,” Bello Danbatta told journalists on phone.
“It was a suicide bomb attack, we are trying to ascertain the actual number of those injured in the hospital now,” he added.
An official of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, also confirmed that three people died.
NEMA’s national spokesman, Sani Datti, said “three of the dead persons are female bombers, while 17 persons that were injured have been evacuated to hospitals in Maiduguri.”
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