About 16 people were killed and many injured from multiple suicide bombing attacks in the Nigerian town of Chibok, where about three hundred schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram about two years ago.
The wounded people are "battling for their lives," and have been severely burned, said Dr. Idrissa Danladi to The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
The hospital where the victims were admitted reported shortage of blood for the wounded, and about ten of them were taken to another medical center.
The militants have increasingly used suicide bombings as its tactics after they were strategically defeated, and retreated after losing ground in key towns and villages.
The chief of Chibok Development Association, Pogu Bitrus, said that six male and six female suicide bombers infiltrated the town when people were gathered for weekly vegetable market.
One man detonated his suicide vest at the security checkpoint, which killed a soldier. Another commander ran to the market area to warn people to disperse but it was too late, as a woman blew herself at the place, killing several people, and injuring the commander.
Other explosions followed in rapid succession, the eyewitnesses said.
A bomb expert told AP that some of the explosives on suicide bombers were not detonated by them, but by others using remote control devices.
Boko Haram's increasing use of child and adult suicide bombers has raised fears the group is using captives as weapons. A military bomb expert has told the AP that some explosives on suicide bombers have been remotely detonated, indicating that the carriers might not have been willingly committing the crime.
