Nigeria: 2 soldiers injured in suicide bomb attack

By Olarewaju Kola

MAIDUGURI/Nigeria

Two soldiers have been injured in a suicide bomb attack near a refugee camp in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state.

The police said the two attackers who caused the blast also died.

In a press statement, police spokesman Victor Isuku blamed Boko Haram, the group responsible for most of the violence in the country’s troubled northeast region.

"Two female suicide bombers detonated IEDs strapped to their bodies at Mashimari by the military checkpoint behind an IDP camp at Konduga, killing themselves only. Two soldiers were injured as a result of the explosion," he said.

Maj. Gen Lucky Irabor, military commander of the counter-insurgency operation in the northeast, said the two soldiers injured in the bomb blast are receiving treatment at a military hospital.

"The soldiers are responding to treatment," he said.

Boko Haram in a recent video threatened to step up bomb attacks in some parts of the country including the capital city Abuja.