Three
female suicide bombers killed two people and injured six others in an attack on
a village in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, a police spokesman said on
Tuesday.
Nobody
has claimed responsibility for the attack but it bears the hallmarks of
Islamist militant group Boko Haram, whose heartland is Borno and which often
uses women for suicide attacks.
Borno
state police spokesman Victor Isuku said the bombers detonated their explosives
on Monday night in Mandarari Ward, Konduga Local Government Area, some 36 km
(22 miles) from state capital Maiduguri, at about 9:30 p.m. (2030 GMT).
Although
Nigeria's army has pushed out Boko Haram from most of a swathe of land in the
north that it controlled at the start of 2015, suicide attacks and gun raids in
some parts of Borno have increased since the end of the rainy season late last
year.
The
military says the start of the rainy season in a few weeks' time will probably
reduce the militants' movement and activity.
Boko
Haram has killed more than 20,000 people and forced more than 2 million to flee
their homes since 2009 in an insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate
in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation. (REUTERS)
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