Breaking News: 3 dead, 16 injured at Maiduguri suicide bomb attack

Three people have been confirmed dead
and 16 others injured after two suicide
bombers attacked a hospital in
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in
northeastern Nigeria.
The two women tried to get into a
hospital but were stopped by security
guards at the gate and blew themselves
up, witnesses said.
“We evacuated the charred bodies of
the two security guards, another
civilian and the two bombers,” said
Auwal Mohammed, a member of the
community in Molai, where the hospital
is situated.
President Muhammadu Buhari had
ordered the military hierarchy to move
the military command centre to the
troubled northestern town in order to
curb the Boko Haram menace after his
inauguration last month.
However, more than 100 people have
reportedly been killed in northeast
Nigeria in the past few weeks in a spate
of bombings, mostly in Maiduguri.
A source at the mortuary of Borno
State hospital in Maiduguri told Reuters
that it had received three corpses after
the blast. Another hospital source said
16 people injured in the attack had been
brought in.
President Buhari has held talks with
counterparts in neighbouring countries
to set up a joint force to tackle the
insurgents and he is planning to visit
Cameroon later this month to discuss
deeper collaboration.
Buhari is also due to visit U.S. President
Barack Obama in Washington on July 20
and the fight against Boko Haram is
likely to be high on the agenda.