Over 18 people have been killed and many others injured in suspected suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, according to the media reports.
‘A series of attacks by suspected female suicide bombers took place in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state leading to the death of 18 people’, according to the head of the local state emergency management agency. There have also been injuries to 42 people of which 19 are seriously wounded
The region has been at the centre of a 15-year Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands of people and led to the displacement of millions of others. The group at the centre of this violence, Boko Haram, did not immediately claim responsibility for the string of attacks.
As per the media reports a state police spokesman said in one of the three blasts on Saturday in the town of Gwoza, a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated explosives in the middle of a wedding ceremony.
The blast at the wedding ceremony took place at around 3:45 pm (local time) when a woman carrying a baby on her back detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) she had on her at a crowded motor park, said Borno State police spokesman Nahum Kenneth Daso.
The female suicide bombers also targeted a hospital in the same town and carried out another attack at the funeral for victims of the wedding blast.
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