Two explosions have rocked Chibok, the now famous Borno community where over 200 school girls were abducted by Boko Haram sect in April 2014.
Reports say that the explosions, suspected to be from six suicide bombers, killed about eleven people and injured thirty others.
One of bombers reportedly struck at the town’s main market while another bomber attacked a military check point in the early hours of Wednesday.
“The blasts happened a few minutes before noon at the market square. The suicide bombers who entered the town were six in all,” the eye witness said.
“Normally, today is supposed to be the market day, but the market did not operate based on the insecurity in this area. So if the market ran today, the death toll would have been even heavier.”
He explained that after the bombers entered the town on bicycles with explosives “strapped to their backs like babies”, one of the bombers detonated his explosive device in the Utaku area of the town, where he injured a soldier.
“The other bombers tried to detonate theirs at the market but one of them was captured alive, while the five others died in the blasts. They were all men but they disguised as females.
