(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) Two explosions at two markets and a third blast at a bus station killed at least 41 people in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday, witnesses and the local government said.
Ttwenty-one people died when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at the Baga Road fish market, councilman Abubakar Modu told dpa.
Another 16 people were killed in a separate attack a short time later at the city's Monday Market and four more at a bus terminal, said Ali Ibrahim, a lawmaker with the ruling state party All Progressives Congress.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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