Suicide Bombers Kill Six, Injure 36 In Maiduguri Market Attack

At least six persons have been killed and 36 others injured as suicide bombers hit Maiduguri Monday Market on Monday, reports have said. A source at the Borno Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri, where the corpses were deposited confirmed the number
of injured people who were taken to the hospital for treatment.The attack was said to have been unleashed a female suicide bomber. According to a soldier, who spoke to Thisday but asked to remain anonymous as he was not permitted to speak to the press, the female suicide bomber tried to gain entry into the market but was stopped by the local vigilante attached to the market who requested to search her. “She refused and was pushed aside by the civilian JTF. 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.“Five other people died in the process and we have evacuated their bodies to the morgue and have also taken over 30 injured persons to the hospital,” he said. Other sources say there were two bombers both females.