Multiple blasts at camps for people who have fled the Islamist militants Boko Haram killed four and injured 18 in the northeastern Nigeria city of Maiduguri, the state police commissioner said on Wednesday. Borno Police Commissioner Damian Chukwu told the Reuters news agency that three blasts occurred near the city's Muna Garage area at around 430am (03:30 GMT) on Wednesday. “There were four explosions inside the camp,” the coordinator of the Muna camp Tijjani Lumani told Agence France-Presse. The Borno state capital of Maiduguri is the birthplace of Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group that has killed over 20 000 people and forced 2.6 million from their homes since taking up arms against the Nigerian government in 2009.
Multiple suicide blasts occur at a refugee camp near Maiduguri, Nigeria, leaving eight people dead and wounding 18 others.