Borno State Police Commissioner,
Mr. Damian Chukwa, has confirmed that, 12 people were killed, while 18 others
suffered varying degrees of injuries following suicide bomb attack that
occurred early today in Zannari ward of London Ciki in Maiduguri, the Borno
state capital.
Mr. Chukwu during a briefing on
Monday, said, the female suicide bombers both tried to cross over deep trenches
made to prevent them while they were entering the city early morning at the
time worshippers were going out for early morning prayers.
“One of them crossed over,
however, in the process of crossing the barricade, the other one was sighted by
security operatives and was brought down. But the one who had already crossed
over, on seeing that her colleague was gunned down ran into a nearby mosque
where she detonated her explosive, killing herself and other 8 worshippers with
many other injured. The number of injured are 18.”
He said there are other two
killed earlier, putting the number of deaths to 12. He said those injured were
being attended to at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.
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