Police authorities in Borno say the death toll in the recent bombings in the state has increased to 24, but normalcy has been restored in Maiduguri, where the incident happened.
The spokesman of the Borno Police Command, Kenneth Daso, told Channels Television’s breakfast show, The Morning Brief, that security operatives have begun an investigation into the bombings that happened on Monday.
“As of now, our casualty rate has increased a little bit to 24 persons who died and about 100 who are still injured and still receiving treatment. Well, as of now, I would say in Borno State, normalcy has been restored,” Daso said on Wednesday’s edition of the show.
“Joint security forces are currently undergoing security operations, and investigations are ongoing as the police are still probing the scene of the incidents.”
[embedded content]The coordinated blasts by suspected suicide bombers tore through a busy market and other areas in Maiduguri, with the death toll initially pegged at 23 people. More than 100 people were wounded in one of the worst recent attacks on the capital of Borno State.
Three blasts detonated on Monday evening, striking a main market, the entrance of Maiduguri’s largest teaching hospital, and a post office area.
In the wake of the attack, President Bola Tinubu ordered the country’s security chiefs “to move to Maiduguri to take charge of the situation”.
“I want to make it categorically clear that these acts of terror are the final desperate and frantic attempts by criminals and terrorist elements trying to instil and spread fear,” Tinubu said in a statement.
Nigerian governors have also condemned the incident, describing it as a “reckless waste of human lives, and tasked the security forces to degrade the capacity of the terrorists to carry out such attacks”.
“Our condolences and sympathies are with the people and government of Borno State on this sad development,” Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, the leader of the Forum, wrote, promising to “work with the Federal Government to totally defeat terrorists in any part of the country. ”.
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