Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in Borno State, shortly after another bomber killed four at a displaced persons’ camp, an emergency services official said on Thursday.The failed mission at Mandarari village, near the town of Konduga in Borno state, and the successful attack just outside the state capital, Maiduguri, both came after ramped-up military action against Boko Haram Islamists.
The military announced in late 2016 that it had cleared the jihadists’ Sambisa Forest stronghold but they are said to have since returned. The head of the Borno state emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, said soldiers and civilian militia intercepted two women at Mandarari at about 9:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Wednesday. “The women detonated their explosives, killing themselves, having realised they had been uncovered,” he told AFP. About 45 minutes earlier, a male suicide bomber scaled a rear fence at the Dalori camp on the outskirts of Maiduguri and blew himself up. As well as the four who died, 44 were injured. Shortly afterwards, a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives outside the camp, killing only herself, said Idris Garga, head of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the northeast.
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