Borno [Nigeria], Bomb explosions in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state killed at least 18 people and injured 48 others, CNN reported, citing the state's emergency services.
The first explosion occurred at a wedding ceremony around 3:00 p.m. local time on Saturday, followed by another at Gwoza General Hospital and a third at a funeral, CNN reported.
According to the head of the local state emergency management agency, the attacks were carried out by suspected suicide bombers.
WION, citing an AFP report, reported that a state police spokesperson said that in one of the three explosions in Gwoza, a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated explosives in the middle of a wedding ceremony.
The explosion took place around 3:45 p.m. local time when "a woman carrying a baby on her back detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) she was carrying in a crowded parking lot," the state police spokesman said. of Borno, Nahum Kenneth Daso.
Suicide bombers also attacked a hospital in the same city and carried out another attack at the funeral of victims of the wedding blast, WION reported citing AFP.
Baekindo Saidu, director-general of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed 18 deaths, including children, adults and pregnant women.
"The degree of injuries varies from abdominal tears, skull fractures and limb fractures," Saidu said, quoted by Reuters.
According to AFP, Saidu said 19 people who had been "seriously injured" were rushed to the regional capital Maiduguri, while 23 people are waiting to be evacuated.
The Nigerian city, located across the border from Cameroon, has seen violence for more than a decade. Boko Haram had seized Gwoza in 2014, but the Nigerian army retook it with the help of Chadian forces the following year.
The first explosion occurred at a wedding ceremony around 3:00 p.m. local time on Saturday, followed by another at Gwoza General Hospital and a third at a funeral, CNN reported.
According to the head of the local state emergency management agency, the attacks were carried out by suspected suicide bombers.
WION, citing an AFP report, reported that a state police spokesperson said that in one of the three explosions in Gwoza, a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated explosives in the middle of a wedding ceremony.
The explosion took place around 3:45 p.m. local time when "a woman carrying a baby on her back detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) she was carrying in a crowded parking lot," the state police spokesman said. of Borno, Nahum Kenneth Daso.
Suicide bombers also attacked a hospital in the same city and carried out another attack at the funeral of victims of the wedding blast, WION reported citing AFP.
Baekindo Saidu, director-general of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed 18 deaths, including children, adults and pregnant women.
"The degree of injuries varies from abdominal tears, skull fractures and limb fractures," Saidu said, quoted by Reuters.
According to AFP, Saidu said 19 people who had been "seriously injured" were rushed to the regional capital Maiduguri, while 23 people are waiting to be evacuated.
The Nigerian city, located across the border from Cameroon, has seen violence for more than a decade. Boko Haram had seized Gwoza in 2014, but the Nigerian army retook it with the help of Chadian forces the following year.
