Nigerian city of Maiduguri hit by multiple blasts

[Valin]

BBC:

7 March 2015

 

Dozens of people are reported to have died in Nigeria in three separate attacks in the key north-eastern city of Maiduguri.

 

Two of the explosions happened at markets, another was at a busy bus station, witnesses said. Suicide bombers were behind both market attacks, they said.

 

Maiduguri was once the base of the Islamist Boko Haram group that has been conducting a campaign of violence to push for Islamic rule in Nigeria. After being pushed out of the city last year, the Islamist fighters retreated to the nearby Sambisa Forest from where they launched attacks on villages and towns in the north-east, taking over swathes of territory.

 

Boko Haram has not yet commented on the latest attacks, but it has used suicide bombers before.

 

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