2 Female Suicide Bombers Hit Major Maiduguri Market, Kill 30

Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on Tuesday in a crowded market in Nigeria’s north-eastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, witnesses and a security official said. The two teenage girls entered the busy market and detonated their explosives, said Abba Aji Kalli, the Borno state coordinator of the Civilian Joint Task Force. The first set off her explosives and killed about three women, said Kalli.

When others gathered around the scene, the second bomber screamed and blew herself up, killing about 30, he said. “I am right here at the scene and I have before me 11 corpses … many have been taken away by relatives, while others are taken to the state specialists’ hospital,” said Kalli. Soldiers and police officers cordoned off the area while rescue workers helped survivors to the hospital.

Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebel group, Boko Haram, are suspected of being behind the suicide blasts, as they have carried out many similar violent acts in north-eastern Nigeria. Tuesday’s blast is the first in Maiduguri since early July, when 56 people were killed in the same market area when a car bomb hit a group of traders and shoppers. Nigeria’s police have not yet issued a statement on Tuesday’s blasts.

Source: Associated Press

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