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5:08 CAT | 03 Mar 2017
AFP / Maiduguri has been at the centre of the seven-year insurgency
Three suspected suicide bombers, two of them women, have been killed after one of them detonated an explosive device in Maiduguri, in north-east Nigeria.
Security sources say the attackers approached a petroleum depot in Samboa Road. One of the women detonated explosives strapped to her body, causing further explosions as two stationary fuel tankers caught fire.
A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency in Maiduguri, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, said the fire had been put out and the bodies of the three attackers removed. There were no other casualties reported.
Maiduguri was once a stronghold of militant Islamist group Boko Haram but has become more peaceful since the Nigerian military stepped up operations against the insurgents.
However, the Islamists still carry out random attacks in the area.
The attack comes days before a planned visit by the UN Security Council as part of a four-nation tour of countries in the Lake Chad Basin devastated by the seven-year insurgency.
Source: BBC
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