Bomb explosions in northeastern Nigeria kill dozens
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Security analyst on Maiduguri attacks: "The city has always been vulnerable"
Coordinated blasts by suspected suicide bombers tore through a busy market and other areas in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, in one of the worst recent attacks on the capital of Borno state.
AfricanewsMarch 18, 2026 at 09:47 AM UTC23 killed, over 100 injured in multiple blasts in Nigeria
KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 23 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured following multiple explosions in Maiduguri, a city in northeastern Nigeria,
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Coordinated blasts by suspected suicide bombers tore through a busy market and other areas in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, in one of the worst recent attacks on the capital of Borno state.
AfricanewsMarch 17, 2026 at 09:41 PM UTC23 killed, 108 injured in Maiduguri bombings – Police
The spokesperson for the police command, Nahum Daso, said preliminary findings indicate that the attacks were carried out by suspected suicide bombers. The post 23 killed, 108 injured in Maiduguri bombings – Police appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
Premium Times NigeriaMarch 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM UTCMaiduguri bombings: Timeline of major attacks in Nigeria’s Borno state
At least 23 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in suspected suicide bombings Monday night that targeted Maiduguri city in northeastern Nigeria, police said Tuesday.
AfricanewsMarch 17, 2026 at 11:30 AM UTCAt least 23 people killed in suspected suicide attacks in north-eastern Nigeria
More than 100 others injured in bombings targeting post office, market areas and hospital in Maiduguri At least 23 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured in multiple suspected suicide bombings in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, shattering its reputation as a relative oasis of calm in recent years as a long-running insurgency was pushed to the rural hinterlands. Authorities said the explosions went off at the post office and market areas, as well as the entrance to the University of Maiduguri teaching hospital, on Monday evening during iftar, the breaking of fast in the month of Ramadan. Continue reading...
The Guardian WorldMarch 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM UTCNigerian Army speaks on Borno’s multiple bombings that killed many
The Nigerian Army says multiple suicide bombers may have been deployed into Maiduguri to carry out coordinated attacks at crowded locations. The post Nigerian Army speaks on Borno’s multiple bombings that killed many appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
Premium Times NigeriaMarch 17, 2026 at 10:01 AM UTCNigeria suicide attacks kill 23, wound more than 100
Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said on Tuesday. The three blasts, which struck on Monday evening, came after an attack on a military post overnight Sunday to Monday, which authorities blamed on suspected militants. Combined with the attack on the military position the evening prior and a mosque bombing in December, the assaults have wrecked a peaceful stretch in the city, which had become a relative oasis of calm as Nigeria’s long-running insurgency was pushed to the rural hinterlands. Fighters from Boko Haram and rival group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have recently stepped up attacks in northeastern Nigeria. Their 16-year campaign to establish their rule in the country has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around two million. “Preliminary investigation reveals that the incidents were carried out by suspected suicide bombers,” police spokesman Nahum Kenneth Daso said in a statement. “Regrettably, a total of twenty-three (23) persons lost their lives, while one hundred and eight (108) others sustained varying degrees of injuries,” he added. A militia member told AFP the death toll from the explosions in the city could be as high as 31. An AFP reporter at a city hospital on Monday evening saw dozens of wounded people seeking treatment, as well as multiple bodies covered by sheets on the sidewalk outside. The attackers struck the city’s main market, the gate of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and an area around the city’s Post Office flyover. A Nigerian police truck stands at the deserted Maiduguri Monday Market the morning after multiple explosions struck the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria on March 17, 2026. — Reuters Mala Mohammed, 31, who escaped the market blast, said he initially heard two explosions and saw panicked people running. “At that moment, we were not sure what had happened. But after about two or three minutes, other people who were running along the road started shouting that it was a bomb at the market entrance. “Many of them ran toward the Post Office area because the market entrance and the Post Office are not far apart. Unfortunately, as they were running towards Post Office, the person who had the explosive device ran into the crowd while people were still trying to escape,” said Mohammed. ‘Barbaric’ attacks Police said in the early Tuesday morning statement that “normalcy has been fully restored in the affected areas” and that security forces have increased their “presence and surveillance across Maiduguri and its environs to prevent any further occurrences”. Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum called the apparent bombings “barbaric” and said “the recent surge in attacks is not unconnected with intense military operations in the Sambisa forest,” a known jihadist stronghold. The earlier attack was launched around midnight Sunday into Monday, on a Nigerian military post in Ajilari Cross district, a southwestern suburb of Maiduguri and just a few kilometres from the city’s airport. That same evening, there was an attack in the Damboa local government area, south of Maiduguri.
DawnMarch 17, 2026 at 09:01 AM UTCSuicide attacks in Nigeria kill 23, wound more than 100
Multiple explosions staged by suspected suicide bombers rocked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others, police said Tuesday, . The three blasts, which struck on Monday evening, came after an attack on a military post overnight Sunday to Monday, which authorities blamed on suspected jihadists. Combined with the attack on the military position the evening prior and a mosque bombing in December, the assaults have wrecked a peaceful...
SCMP WorldMarch 17, 2026 at 07:09 AM UTCMany killed, wounded after blasts hit Nigeria’s Maiduguri, witnesses say
Police deploy explosives' clearance teams to three sites following suspected suicide attacks in the northeastern city.
Al JazeeraMarch 17, 2026 at 01:05 AM UTC