Nine persons were killed in two separate
suicide bomb attacks on Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, the
information officer of the National Emergency Management Authority in
the Northeast, Mallam AbdulKadir Ibrahim told our correspondent on
phone.
Ibrahim also disclosed that two 24 persons were injured in the two separate explosion.
The agency’s information officer at the
National headquarters in Abuja, Sani Datti in a message to our
correspondent, revealed that there were two explosions in Maiduguri, one
at the entrance to Bakassi IDPs camp and the other at the NNPC station
along Damboa road.
Datti said the agency’s rescue team are already evacuating the victims.
One of the commandants of the youth
vigilance group, Civilian JTF, Abba Ali Kalli, told our correspondent on
phone that the two incidents which seems to be coordinated happened
early on Saturday morning
According to him the incident happened
at the entrance to one of the internally displaced persons camps on
Damboa road (popular called Bakassi IDP camp) and at the junction of the
NNPC Petroleum Product Depot on Damboa road.
He said the number of casualties at the
entrance to Bakassi camp was yet to be ascertain while the incident at
the NNPC Depot junction claimed three lives, the suicide bombers and two
other persons in a tricycle.
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