Twin blasts rock Maiduguri market, 22 killed.

Reports reaching DAILY POST from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital say two bombs have again gone off at the Maiduguri Monday Market.

The Monday market was the same location two female suicide bombers detonated explosive devices last week, killing several people and injuring many more

Barely one week after a bomb blast killed over 60 persons at the Maiduguri Monday Market, another blast this morning, Monday, killed 22 persons, leavig over 50 critically injured, a hospital source at the Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri, where victims are being evacuated to has told DAILY POST.

The source who said he was not authorized to speak to the Press told our correspondent that, so far, 22 bodies have been confirm dead, while over 50 brought into the hospital are still in critical situation.

” We hope they recover, but I doubt the state of the victims at the moment. We are still waiting as the victims are still being evacuated. I was told it happened around people selling chickens at the Monday Market. I think people have to be very careful this days, especially as we are approaching Christmas and the 2015 elections,” he said.

culled: Dailypost

Two Suicide Bombers Hit Maiduguri Market

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.

source; punch