(ANSA) - Rome, January 27 - Witnesses say four female
suicide bombers have killed 13 civilians and wounded 30 in
explosions at a market in the Chibok hometown of Nigeria's
kidnapped schoolgirls.
A man at the scene says the blasts began Wednesday when
soldiers tried to search a young woman covered in a hijab in
the northeast Nigerian town. Then three women inside the
market exploded in quick succession. The man insisted on
anonymity for fear of reprisals.
A Chibok community leader in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, said
another blast occurred at a military checkpoint in Chibok.
Tsambo Hosea Abana says relatives called to tell him his uncle
and 15-year-old niece are among the wounded.
He blamed Boko Haram Islamic extremists who kidnapped nearly
300 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014 of whom 219 remain missing.
Suicide bombers kill 13 in Chibok home of kidnapped girls
Blamed on Boko Haram