Nigeria Cattle Market Explosion Kills Over 46, Several Wounded
Militants stormed huge crowd in a cattle market in Borno State that killed more than 46 people and wounded dozens, authorities told media.
However, if a civilian joint task force member as well as an army official’s statement is to be believed so more than 51 people were badly wounded in this severest bombing.
According to locals and security forces’ reports, the militants carried out the heavy bomb blast in Jebo livestock market, located in Sabon Gari town in southern Borno nearly at 13:30 local time (12:30 GMT).
The intermittently attacks in Borno state’s various regions have been killed a large number of people for last few weeks which believed to be all done by the Nigeria’s largest Islamist militant organization Boko Haram.
The residents of the region told media, a female suicide bomber turned a location near close to a cattle market in the town of Sabon Gari, northeastern side of Borno— about at around 1:29pm local time on Tuesday and blew up herself with heavy explosives in huge crowd.
It also reported that despite the tight security in the region nowadays, everyone appeared to be shocked that how did female suicide bomber carry out the attack? Because the Multi-National Task Force, a coalition of African countries have launched a operation to prevent the Boko Haram actions as well as remove their complete hold.
The Borno State is believed to be home of Islamist insurgency, while Boko Haram has been started targeting nearest villages, towns in northern Cameroon including Chad and Niger for recent months.
The dangerous Islamist militant organization Boko Haram has been intensified since the new Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari decided to remove the complete hold of the jihadist terror group from the country.
After the oath of Muhammadu Buhari in May,, the militants have been shot dead over 799 people carrying out suicide bombing, and open gunfire.