Fourteen people have died in the latest suicide bomb attack in northeast Nigeria, an official said Monday in an updated toll, calling for greater protection for those made homeless by Boko Haram.
Three bombers, all of them women, detonated their explosives near the sprawling Muna Garage camp on the outskirts of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, on Sunday evening.
The blasts came after warnings of a build-up of jihadist fighters outside the strategic city, the epicentre in the eight years of Islamist violence.
Ahmed Satomi, from the Borno state emergency management agency, told AFP the death toll had risen since Sunday evening.
“So far, we have 14 people killed and 18 injured in the triple suicide bombings last night,” he said.
He said the Muna Garage site, which in the last 18 months has developed from an informal settlement into a vast camp for internally displaced persons…
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