Tobi Ijalana
At least, 30 people were killed and more than 40 have been injured in a triple suicide bombing in Borno State.
Borno Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Monday confirmed it.
Usman Kachala, SEMA Director Search, Rescue and Operations disclosed this to news men said the incident occured around 8pm on Sunday.
Kachala said that the three suicide bombers, comprising two females and a male, detonated the IEDs in a local tea joint and film center in the community.
Adding that the death toll increased to 30 on Monday as a result of lack of immediate medical attention, his staff could not reach the spot of the incident as the military had closed the road.
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“When me and my team arrived Konduga early this morning, the military prevented us from gaining access to the community to assist the victims.
“They told us they were given order from above not to open the road untill 9am,”he lamented.
Victims were conveyed in pick-up vans by relations to hospitals in Maiduguri, the state capital, a distance of about 80 km from their town.
