Suicide attacks in Nigeria kill 23, wound more than 100

2026.03.17 07:20 An injured man looks out of an ambulance at a hospital in Maiduguri. Photo: AFP Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said Tuesday, . The three blasts, which struck on Monday evening, came after an attack on a military post overnight Sunday to Monday, which authorities blamed on suspected jihadists. Combined with the attack on the military position the evening prior and a mosque bombing in December, the assaults have wrecked a peaceful stretch in the city, which had become a relative oasis of calm as Nigeria’s long-running insurgency was pushed to the rural hinterlands. Fighters from Boko Haram and rival jihadist group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have recently stepped up attacks in northeastern Nigeria. Their 16-year campaign to establish a caliphate in the country has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around 2 million. “Preliminary investigation reveals that the incidents were carried out by suspected suicide bombers,” police spokesman Nahum Kenneth Daso said in a statement. “Regrettably, a total of twenty three (23) persons lost their lives, while one hundred and eight (108) others sustained varying degrees of injuries,” he added. An anti-jihadist militia member said the death toll from the explosions in the city could be as high as 31. An Agence Framce-Presse reporter at a city hospital on Monday evening saw dozens of wounded people seeking treatment, as well as multiple bodies covered by sheets on the pavement outside. The attackers struck the city’s main market, the gate of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and an area around the city’s Post Office flyover. Mala Mohammed, 31, who escaped the market blast said he initially heard two explosions and saw panicked people running. “At that moment, we were not sure what had happened. But after about two or three minutes, other

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