SIX KILLED IN BORNO EXPLOSIONS

Multiple Bomb explosions rocked the city of Maiduguri in the troubled Borno State, killing six persons including two civilian JTF members, while four of the suicide bombers also lost their lives in the explosions.

The two CJTF members paid the supreme price while preventing a Boko Haram member from entering the city through Maiduguri-Dikwa road city gate, southeast of the capital, to detonate his explosive devices, the police said.

A suicide bomber attempted to enter the city through the Mauduguri-Dikwa road city gate, but was prevented by the civilian JTF in the area. The bomber exploded killing two civilian JTF members," commissioner of police, Borno command, Damian Chukwu told newsmen at a press conference.

The bomb attack came in the wake of another suicide attack which occurred earlier in the day around the Jiddari-Polo, Southwest of the metropolis in the early hours of the day. Residents said they heard heavy and deafening sounds from the explosion, fueling anxiety of possible attack on the capital by Boko Haram, but the police commissioner said the sounds were explosions from the suicide bombers.