Two
suicide bombers – a male and female – attacked a heavily populated
Maiduguri market, killing scores of people, an eyewitness, Yusuf
Ahmed, said on Tuesday.
An unconfirmed source said 65 corpses had been evacuated while others claimed 30 people were killed in the explosion.
Ahmed
said on the telephone, “As I am talking to you, people are still trying
to rescue the injured and evacuate the corpses. It is difficult to know
the number of casualties.”
He said the place had been condoned off by security agencies making it difficult to assist in the rescue operations.
A youth
vigilante source confirmed that the female attacker kept a parcel in one
of the shops on One-way, a commercial area beside the popular Monday
Market, telling the traders that she had something to pick from the
market,
“The
package detonated few minutes later. And as people were still wondering
what happened and trying to rescue the injured, a bomber in the same
area detonated a bomb planted on her; this claimed so many lives,” the
source said.(PUNCH)
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