Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a hospital in
Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, shortly after Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo arrived in the city to visit camps for people fleeing a militant
Islamist insurgency.
The blasts injured two people and
happened at about 11.30 a.m. (1030 GMT) near the gates of a hospital where
suicide bombers killed three people and injured 16 last Saturday, a military
source and a witness told Reuters.
"The second blast occurred two
minutes after the first one, killed the bomber and injured two other people
nearby," said Mohammed Haruna, who helped to evacuate people from the
scene.
Maiduguri has been the target of
several attacks since Muhammadu Buhari, president of Africa's most populous
nation and biggest economy, made it the command center for the campaign against
Boko Haram militants after being inaugurated on May 29.
It was not immediately clear whether
the bombers had been targeting the hospital again or whether the bombs had gone
off accidently.
The hospital is one of the few
public buildings in an area called Molai, which is on the outskirts of
Maiduguri and where security is not always as tight as in the center of the
state capital of Borno.
Osinbajo was visiting a camp about
10 km (6 miles) away that houses some of the 1.5 million people displaced by
Boko Haram during the militant group's six-year fight to establish an Islamic
caliphate in the northeast.
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