Injured victims of a suicide bomb assault obtain therapy at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, on June 30, 2024.
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Ladies suicide bombers focused a marriage, a funeral and a hospital in coordinated assaults in northern Nigeria that killed no less than 18 folks, native authorities mentioned Sunday.

The primary bomber detonated throughout a wedding celebration within the northeastern city of Gwoza, Barkindo Saidu, director-general of the Borno State Emergency Administration Company, advised reporters.

“Minutes later, one other blast occurred close to Common Hospital,” Mr. Saidu mentioned, and the third bomber on the funeral service was disguised as a mourner. Kids and pregnant ladies had been amongst these killed. No less than 30 others had been wounded.

Nobody claimed accountability for the the assaults. Borno state has been closely affected by the insurgency launched in 2009 by the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group.

Previously, Boko Haram has used ladies and women in suicide bombings, prompting suspicions that some attackers come from the various hundreds of individuals the extremists have kidnapped through the years, together with schoolchildren. The suicide assaults had been focused at a marriage, funeral and a hospital and injured 30 folks