Suspected suicide bombers have
detonated improvised explosive devices, IEDs, at the Molai General Hospital in
Maiduguri, residents of the area have confirmed.
The explosions were detonated in
series of three.
The first explosion was around
3:50 am, while the second and third explosions were around 5:00am and 5:30 am,
respectively.
A hospital assistant was killed,
while four other persons were reportedly injured at the Molai General hospital
following a suicide bomb attack at the hospital in the early hours of Friday.
Security personnel at the
hospital said the suicide bombers sneaked into the premises of the hospital
through the back of the building.
“When they were sighted, one of
them immediately blew herself to generate attention and the other gained
entrance to hit at one of the hospital assistants, who died and four other
persons who were injured as a result of the blast,” Mohammed one of the local
security men at the hospital said.
Patients and residents of the
hospital who fled the area are gradually returning and normalcy is returning as
security operatives and NEMA officials were said to have deployed men to
maintain order and evacuate the remains of the victims and the suicide bombers.
There is no official statement
either from the police or the military regarding the attack yet.
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