Abuja: Over 30 people died and 42 were injured in a triple suicide attacks in a restive area of northeastern Nigeria, officials said on Monday. The attacks were carried out late on Sunday evening in Mandarari in Borno, which borders Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
Three people—two women and a man—carrying homemade explosives blew themselves up at a centre where people had gathered to watch television, the country’s State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) was cited as saying by Efe news.
Usman Kachala, SEMA Search and Rescue Operations Director, visited the site of the incident and said that 17 people were killed instantly at the scene. The rest of the victims died later after they did not receive medical treatment because the Army had cordoned off the area, Kachala told reporters.
It was not clear who was responsible for the attacks but the state of Borno is frequently targeted by the extremist group Boko Haram, which regularly uses women and men as suicide bombers.