President Buhari is barely twenty fours old in the office yet the deadly islmaic sect, Boko Haram has struck twice!
A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in Maiduguri this afternoon killing at least 18
people, a hospital source said.
Recall that yesterday two explosions hit a wedding ceremony centre in Borno and seven peeps died.
The attacks occurred a day after the
inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, who swore to crush the
Islamist militant group and move the command centre for military
operations away from the capital Abuja to Maiduguri.
“A male
bomber suspected to be Boko Haram is said to have entered a mosque near
the (Monday) Market to detonate,” a military source said.
The hospital added that there were also more than 30 wounded.
A
military source said the overnight shooting took place around the
Damboa road near the small settlement of Mule, about 10 km (6 miles)
from Maiduguri, a city of two million people.
“A rocket launcher
from Boko Haram hit a house around the Bulumkutu area…and killed five
people. Our boys also picked up six corpses in different locations,”
local militia member Mohammed Bunu said.
The militants tried to cross trenches dug around the city, he said.