23 killed in suicide attacks in Nigeria

International Desk: Four Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 23 people in a series of attacks that targeted a civilian self-defence force and the people who gathered to mourn their deaths.

It was the deadliest attack in months in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram’s eight-year insurgency.

Borno state police commissioner Damian Chukwu said 23 others were wounded in Tuesday night’s attacks. The police commissioner said 12 of the dead were members of a civilian self-defence force and the other seven people had been mourning them.

At least one of the suicide bombers was female, said a spokesman for the self-defence force, Danbatta Bello. The bombers specifically targeted his colleagues while they were on duty, he said.

Agencies


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