At least six persons were confirmed killed as four teenage girls detonated explosives worn around their bodies at the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in the early hours of Wednesday, an official said. Suicide bombers have hit Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.It was gathered that the attack occurred at the Muna garage in Maiduguri, which was just recently attacked by the insurgents.The incident was confirmed by the spokesperson to the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, North-East, Abdulkadir Ibrahim in a chat with newsmen.According to Ibrahim, “It’s true, the incident occurred.“Four suicide bombers at about 1am struck and several people died. The spokesperson of NEMA, Sani Datti, said in a statement that “four female teenage suicide bombers killed two other men (6 people dead) when they detonated explosives at Usmanti along muna Garage road at about 1.15 a.m.”

He added that about “16 people who got injured were administered with first aid by rescue workers before being transported to the state specialist hospital and university teaching hospital in Maiduguri Borno state”. Four female teenage suicide bombers blew themselves up, killing two people and wounding 16 others in a residential area in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Wednesday.
Four suicide bombers kill at least two people and wound 16 others in Maiduguri, Nigeria.