Injured victims of a suicide bomb assault obtain therapy at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on June 30, 2024. | Picture credit score: AP
Feminine suicide bombers focused a marriage, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated assaults in northern Nigeria that killed at the least 18 individuals, native authorities stated Sunday.
The primary bomber detonated throughout a marriage celebration within the northeastern city of Gwoza, Barkindo Saidu, director basic of the Borno State Emergency Administration Company, advised reporters.
“A couple of minutes later, one other explosion occurred close to the Basic Hospital,” Saidu stated, and the third attacker who attacked the funeral posed as a mourner. Among the many useless had been youngsters and pregnant ladies. A minimum of 30 different individuals had been injured.
There was no declare of accountability for the assaults. Borno state has been severely affected by the insurgency launched in 2009 by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
Up to now, Boko Haram has used ladies and women in suicide bombings, elevating suspicions that a few of the attackers come from the hundreds of individuals the extremists have kidnapped through the years, together with schoolchildren. The suicide assaults focused a marriage, a funeral and a hospital and injured 30 individuals.
