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Multiple explosions have been reported in Maiduguri, Borno State. It was gathered that the blasts were suicide bomb attacks which started Tuesday night and lasted into the early hours of Wednesday.
At least three persons have been confirmed dead in separate attacks.
According to a chieftain of the local vigilante, Civilian-JTF, Danbatta Bello, at about midnight, a male suicide bomber was shot dead from an observatory by a military sniper after he was spotted advancing towards a security check post manned by soldiers in Usmanti layout of Maiduguri.
At about 5.30 a.m. another deafening blast echoed in Maiduguri as another suicide bomber, a teenage girl, blew herself up after members of the Civilian-JTF, stopped her from advancing towards a mosque where Muslim worshippers were praying.
The female suicide bomber died alongside one member of the Civilian-JTF that tried to stop her. Two others were injured.