Chukwu said: “At about 0850hrs today (Sunday), two suicide bombers detonated IEDs strapped to their bodies by Market Roundabout; 18 persons sustained various degrees of injuries, and are currently at the State Specialist Hospital while only the suicide bombers died in the blast.”

The spokesman of NEMA, Mr. Sani Datti, who had earlier confirmed that only two suicide bombers died in the explosion, later called THISDAY to explain that one of the 17 injured victims of the explosion died in the hospital. Yusuf Muhammed, chairman of the Madagali local government, says 120 children are among those wounded when two women suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday at opposite ends of the market in Madagali town. The seven-year insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people, forced 2.6 million from their homes and created a massive humanitarian crisis.
At least three people are killed in two suicide bombing attacks in Maiduguri, Nigeria.