According to several reports, three children – two girls and a boy (ages unknown) – were used to detonate explosives that killed 30 people and injured 40 others at a community football viewing centre in Konduga in Borno State
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According to available information, the suicide bombers struck shortly before 6pm
The spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Sani Usman, said this in a statement on Saturday in which the Nigerian Army appealed for such practice to be stopped
Malam Murtala Ibrahim of the Borno State Police Command Public Relations Unit confirmed the incident in statement he issued in Maiduguri
Soyinka said the invasion was an act of provocation
Among the dead were four suicide bombers
Damian Chukwu, the Commissioner of Police, made this known in a statement in Maiduguri
No casualty was recorded except the two female suicide bombers, who were suspected to be agents of Boko Haram
Victor Isuku the spokesman of the state police command, disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri.
Damian Chukwu, the state Commissioner of Police, confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri.
The suicide bombers struck in the early hours of Friday
The major damage happened at Muna Garage, a truck station where 13 stationary trucks were burnt after a bomber attacked
This was contained in a statement on Friday by the spokesman of the Defence Headquarters, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar
The offer was contained in a statement on Tuesday by the spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Sani Usman
Competent sources told The Eagle Online that the explosion occurred at about 5am
The Coordinator of NEMA for Adamawa and Taraba States Operation Office, Sa’ad Bello, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria
The alert, by the spokesman of the 7 Division Nigerian Army, Colonel Mustapha Anka, followed the blasts in different locations in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Sunday night
They were sighted by members of the vigilante group from a distance and alerted the troops about the impending catastrophe
The troops were said to have responded decisively by intercepting and neutralizing two of the suspected terrorists at Madiyari village, while the third suicide bomber was intercepted and neutralized at Jimini-Bolori village
The dress code, the Defence Headquarters, said on Saturday, is to deceive would-be victims