Nigeria: Boko Haram carried out its deadliest attacks on the key northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power, killing scores in a series of coordinated bomb blasts. Police in the Borno state capital said at least 54 people died in Sunday's co-ordinated strikes, with 90 injured.
The attacks on Sunday night in the Ajilari Cross area and nearby Gomari, near the city's airport, killed and maimed worshippers at a mosque, bystanders and football fans watching a televised match. The army and rescuers said the explosions were caused by homemade devices but one local and the police said a female suicide bomber also blew herself up.
Maiduguri, where Boko Haram was founded in 2002, has been the epicentre of the six-year-old insurgency and repeatedly attacked since Buhari assumed office. Some 26 people were killed in a suicide attack on a Maiduguri mosque on May 30, while another attack on a cattle market three days later killed 13.
The day after that strike, 18 were killed in a bomb blast. Since his inauguration on May 29, at least 1,100 people have been killed, with the majority of attacks in Borno, according to AFP.
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