Suicide Bombings Kill More Than 80 in Northeastern Nigeria

More than 80 people died in attacks in northeast Nigeria’s Borno and Adamawa states, as suicide bombers targeted civilians and the army clashed with suspected Islamist militants in a spate of violence starting late Sunday.

In the deadliest attack, two female suicide bombers killed about 40 people near a mosque in the Sulemanti area of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, according to Hassan Ibrahim, a member of a local vigilante militia group. Two other bombers detonated explosives behind a Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. gasoline station in the city, killing another 19 people, he said.