Few days after Boko Haram bombings killed 58 people, the city of Maiduguri came under attack again on Tuesday, as twin blasts ripped through the northeastern city’s crowded Monday Market.
The market has been repeatedly hit by suicide bombers, including on Saturday, as well as a nearby street, leaving seven people dead in the suspected suicide bomb attack, According to police.
“Seven persons died while 17 others were injured. The rescue is still ongoing,” Borno state police commissioner Clement Adoda told reporters.
Adoda referred to only one blast after initial reports of two explosions at the city’s Monday Market and in a nearby street.
The latest attacks came after the government in Abuja described the militants’ pledge of allegiance to IS as a sign of weakness in the face of growing military pressure from Nigeria and its allies.
National security spokesman Mike Omeri had called it “an act of desperation and comes at a time when Boko Haram is suffering heavy losses”.
“Boko Haram is on the way to being eliminated. No foreign extremists can or will change this fact –- as long as the Nigerian military continues to receive cooperation and commitment from its citizens and allies.
“There will be no Islamic State in Nigeria, the only state that will exist is the united Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Omeri had said.
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