Maiduguri Market Blast Kills 30


Twin blasts today rocked Maiduguri Metropolitan City killing scores of traders and injuring several people in the troubled Borno State capital, residents said.

Two female suicide bombers reportedly blew themselves up this morning at the Maiduguri Monday market in Borno state, killing at least 30 people. One of the blasts, according to witnesses, occurred along the Baban-Layi of the main market and the other at the northern flank of the market around 11.30AM when  daily commercial activities had begun.

The Borno State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Clement Adoda, who confirmed the incident expressed sadness over the incident, but could not give an exact casualty figure.
I cannot give you the exact number of casualties right now, as I am heading towards the blast scenes, but the reports I’m receiving right now as I speak indicates that several people were killed and injured in the sad and unfortunate blast,” said Adoda.

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