Four persons have been confirmed dead early Saturday morning when three suicide bombers attempted to enter University of Maiduguri but they were thwarted by security men.
Two of the bombers detonated their bombs while they were been interrogation by the security men at the gate, killing one of them and injuring another people at the spot.
The third bomber who was hiding close to a building near the gate also detonated the explosive on her which caused damage to the building at the entrance to the campus.
The Maiduguri based National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed the death of 4 four persons including the bombers in a statement released on Saturday
Mal. Abdulkadir Ibrahim, the North East Information officer of the agency in statement said “three suicide bombers, two men and a woman attempted to gain access into University of Maiduguri, but were sighted by the university security that stopped them for interrogation” “While interrogating them, the two suicide bombers detonated their explosives devices which injured one of the securities and killed another. The third suicide bomber hid close to the vicinity of a building in the university later detonated her explosive which affected the structure of the building with no casualty. “The injured has been taken to University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital after administering of first aid while the corpses were deposited at Borno specialist hospital’’
