Boko Haram bomb blasts has killed at least 50 people in
Maiduguri Nigeria's northeast on Saturday in the worst attacks of the Islamist
militants this year.
Around noon on Saturday, a tricycle rider detonated a bomb
when they were stopped from entering a fish market on Baga road in Maiduguri, eye
witness said, after fleeing the scene.
A second blast hit an area known as the Monday market
shortly afterwards before a car bomb exploded by a bus station near a Department
of State Security (DSS) office, according to a civilian member of security
officials.
The number of wounded was above 48 and more had been taken
to two other hospitals, officials said.
On Saturday, Nigeria's army said it had retaken two constituencies
in Borno state from Boko Haram.
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