Three girls carried out suicide bombings in the northeastern Nigerian
city of Damaturu on Friday, killing 13 people celebrating the end of
the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, police said.
“Thirteen people were killed in the… suicide blasts,” said Markus
Danladi, Yobe state police commissioner. “The attacks were carried out
by three underage girls. Fifteen people were also injured in the
attacks.”
Boko Haram Islamists have carried out a slew of deadly assaults in
northeast Nigeria over the course of their six-year-old insurgency. Over
the past year the group has deployed several female suicide bombers.
Residents said twin explosions near a prayer ground in Damaturu
killed two people, with a third blast moments later near a mosque
leaving another 11 people dead, according to medics.
This year’s Ramadan has been particularly deadly, with suicide
bombers hitting mosques and worshippers attacked by gunmen as they
prayed.
A medical source who wished to remain anonymous told AFP that 13 bodies had been brought to the hospital.
Damaturu is the capital of Yobe, one of three northeastern states
hardest hit by the insurgency that has left 15,000 people dead and 1.5
million homeless since 2009.
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