Nigeria’s Madagali town was rocked on Friday by three suicide blasts on market day.
All the three blasts occurred at a checkpoint of the town where people were searched before getting an entry to the market. Two of the bombers were carrying babies on their backs too.
Two self-defense fighters were killed in the blasts including all the bombers and two babies.
Last week in the outskirts of Madagali three suicide girl bombers were killed.
Last month two female suicide bombers in the same market of Madagali killed more than 150 people and injured about 200 others including 120 children.
Madagali is about 90 miles southeast of Maiduguri, largest city in northeast Nigeria that is the birth place of the group’s insurgency.
Residents of the town blamed Islamist extremists group Boko Haram for the attacks.
In recent months Nigerian military and civilian self-defense fights have intercepted several such suicide male and female bombers.
Bokok Haram has used as young as 7-year-old female suicide members. Questions have been raised whether the younger girls came from the kidnapped victims.
It has also come to notice in some suicide bomber cases the explosives were detonated remotely. This indicates the girls may not have acted of their free will.
The terror group kidnapped about 300 school girls from a boarding school in April 2014 in the northeastern town of Chibok. Dozens escaped within hours and the rest were taken captive. As of now 219 are still missing.
Boko Haram gained control in northern parts of the country in 2009. Since then it has killed more than 15,000 people.
