Just In: Explosion Rocks Maiduguri Again, Moru-Moru Market

Channels TV reports that the blast likely occurred when an improvised explosive device went off. Four people were said to have been killed.

As the explosion was recorded at the Moru-Moru market in the Gamboru area near Maiduguri.

However, witness Jafar Aminu told Premium Times that no casualties had been recorded:

“The explosion did not kill any one but injured four persons among whom one has his arm completely ripped off by the blast.”

Abbas Gava, an official of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in Maiduguri, also confirmed the incident saying that “the explosive that went off may have been concealed in some of the piled up sacks of charcoal. But thank God the damage did not claim any life except four persons that got injured with one losing the whole of his hand”.

Nigerians wonder how the new government is going to deal with the situation, in comparison with the immediate past administration.

The incident comes on the next day after suspected Boko Haram insurgents had carried out two attacks in Maiduguri, killing many people.

In the early morning of Saturday the militants attempted to invade Borno state capital. However, the attack was repelled by the military.

On the same day a suicide bombing was launched in a Maiduguri mosque.