WEB DESK
A series of suicide bomb attacks killed 18 people and injured 29 others yesterday in Maiduguri, Nigeria’s Islamist-infested Borno state. The chief security officer of Borno State’s emergency response agency, Bello Dambatta, said, the first suicide bomber blew himself up among people conducting an evening prayer.
A suicide bomber then entered a house before setting off explosives and the other two suicide bombers blew themselves up before reaching their targets,he added.
The Islamist extremists of Boko Haram have carried numerous attacks and abductions on Nigerian soil and in neighboring African states. At least 20,000 people have been killed and more than 2.6 million people made homeless in northeast Nigeria since the group launched its insurgency.