Avoid crowded places – Army warns of more suicide bombers in Maiduguri

The Nigerian Army has warned residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, to stay vigilant and debar crowded places pursuing quality reports indicating the imaginable beingness of further termination bombers successful the metropolis aft Monday’s deadly attacks that killed 23 radical and injured 108 others.

In a connection issued connected Tuesday, the Media Information Officer of the North-East Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, Lt. Col. Sanni Uba, said the alert followed coordinated termination bombings carried retired astatine engaged nationalist locations during the evening rush.

According to him, the explosions occurred astatine astir 7:05 p.m. connected Monday, astir the clip Muslims were observing Iftar, erstwhile the attackers detonated improvised explosive devices successful crowded areas successful an evident effort to origin maximum casualties and wide panic.

Uba described the attacks arsenic cowardly, noting that preliminary quality suggests the perpetrators, believed to beryllium members of Boko Haram, whitethorn person deployed aggregate termination bombers into Maiduguri to execute coordinated strikes.

“Preliminar...