Nigeria enacts curfew after multiple suicide bombings killed or injured dozens

The Nigerian military imposed a curfew in Borno state after suspected female suicide bombers targeted a wedding, a funeral and a hospital in the restive Borno region, killing at least 18 and injured 30 others.
Coordinated suicide attacks reportedly orchestrated by Boko Haram claimed the lives of at least 18 people, injuring 42, targeting selected communities in northeastern Nigeria between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon (28-29 June). The Islamist jihadist group, which has not officially claimed responsibility for the bombings, has been waging violence in the region for more than ten years. “We all have to be on alert now, as we don’t know where many of these girls that have been released are headed now. Our local intelligence was able to ascertain that there are 30 of them,” one local source said.
In one of three blasts in the town of Gwoza, a woman carrying a baby detonated explosives in the middle of a wedding ceremony, causing multiple casualties, according to a state police spokesman. Subsequent bombers targeted mourners at a hospital in the same town across the border from Cameroon, while another attack was carried out at the funeral for victims of the wedding blast, authorities said. According to HumAngle, a niche media platform covering Africa’s conflict, humanitarian, and development issues, the Gwoza general area is Boko Haram’s primary area of dominance and control, where the group is constantly fending off attacks from both security forces and its rival terrorist group, the Islamic State West Africa Provence (ISWAP).