Update:
A military source told our correspondent in Maiduguri that the suicide bombers hit the market at 11:23am.Craving anonymity, the source said on the telephone, “I can confirm that there were two suicide bombers, but they are a male and female. The first suicide bomber was a female and hid the bomb on herself which she detonated at the vicinity of the market.
“Just as the people gathered around her corpse and a few other people that died in the first explosion, a male, this time around, detonated the explosive on him which killed several people.
“No one can give you the exact casualty now but over 30 persons were killed and many have been rushed to the hospital.”
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.
Details later…
Another
source claimed that the third bombing suspect was caught by the people.
This also could not be confirmed as the police had yet to give an
official confirmation of the explosion.
culled from punch
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