Emerging reports indicates that total of 81 people were killed in Borno State on Sunday, 54 in Maiduguri and 27 at a checkpoint in a market in Monguno, 135 kilometres away from a suicide attack.
The latter bombing has been largely unreported. It was caused by a suicide bomber, two hours after the multiple attacks on the outskirts of Maiduguri.
Hospital source said the Monguno attack killed 27 people and injured 62 persons.
“I counted 27 dead bodies from the scene,” said Malum Sunoma, a local resident who helped with rescues. He was speaking on the phone from a hospital where his brother was being treated.
“Five vehicles conveyed 62 injured persons from the Monguno attack to the specialist hospital in Maiduguri,” said a doctor, who spoke on condition on anonymity.
Maiduguri has been free of attacks for about a month. It was last hit by a bomb at the end of July and there was a skirmish with suspected Boko Haram militants on the outskirts of the city in mid-August.
