Less than 24 hours after a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Maiduguri and killed 42 worshippers, another bombing occurred in the Borno State capital city yesterday, leving seven people dead.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed yesterday that death of the seven people resulted from an early morning attack on a mosque at Molai, a settlement on the outskirts of Maiduguri, by three female suicide bombers.
The attack also left 17 people injured.
The spokesman of NEMA in the North East, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, said in a short SMS he sent to our correspondent: “At Umarari Bayan Waya, at some minutes past 5 am today (yesterday), the suicide attack was carried out by three female suicide bombers.
“Seventeen casualties were taken to specialist hospital, seven deaths including the suicide bombers,” Abdulkadir informed.
In his account, the village Head of Molai , Alhaji Balama Bako, said the female bombers walked confidently into the mosque at about 5.30 am and detonated the IEDs, killing seven, including the three of them.
Gov. Kashim Shettima with the Director General of NEMA, Sani Sidi, went on a sympathy visit to Molai community and other parts of the metropolis to visits the victims of terror.
No fewer than 42 worshippers were killed Thursday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in another mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city.
All the people in the mosque were said to have died.
