MAIDUGURI—More than 50 people,
including 16 members of the Vigilante outfit, also known as Civilian JTF, were
killed, yesterday when a Peugeot 505 saloon car conveying charcoal and wired
with Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, exploded in the busy Monday Market in
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. About 68 others were seriously injured.
A conflicting report from residents
and sources, however, said 20 people including Civilian JTF members died in the
blast, while more than 60 others sustained serious injuries. Other sources
claimed that the number of those who died could be higher than 40 or 50 as many
among the injured died before getting to Umaru Shehu and State Specialist
Hospitals.
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