Five people, including the two suicide bombers, were killed while a total of16 is injured after they attacked a hospital in Maiduguri, Borno, on Saturday.
The two female suicide bombers tried to get into a hospital but were stopped by security guards at the gate and blew themselves up, according to witnesses.
Auwal Mohammed, a member of the community in Molai, where the hospital is situated said, “We evacuated the charred bodies of the two security guards, another civilian and the two bombers."
President Muhammadu Buhari made Maiduguri
the command centre for the military campaign against the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram after being inaugurated last month.
More than 100 people have been killed in the northeastern part of Nigeria in the past few weeks following a series of bombings, mostly of them in Maiduguri.
President Buhari has held talks with counterparts in neighbouring countries to set up a joint force to tackle the insurgents
and he is planning to visit Cameroon later this month to discuss deeper collaboration.
President Buhari is also due to visit U.S. President Barack Obama
in Washington on the 20th of July, and the fight against Boko Haram is likely to be high on the agenda.
Boko Haram controlled territory the size of Belgium in the
northeast at the start of the year but has been pushed out
of most of it by the Nigerian army, backed by troops from
Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
