varying degree of injuries in a twin bomb blast which occurred on the
outskirts of Maiduguri in Borno state. It was gathered from witnesses that some two teenage girls, suspected to be Boko Haram suicide bombers, had appeared walking through a street of Muna general area, which is situated about five kilometres away from the metropolis. An eyewitness said he earlier saw them on Saturday evening quietly walking towards a tarred road and then they suddenly turned back talking softly between themselves. The witness said he thought they were looking for a wedding ceremony event. The National and State Emergency Agencies, NEMA spokesman in Maiduguri, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, in a statement confirmed that two female carriers detonated their explosives within five minutes interval at Muna-Dalti settlement.