At Least 14 killed In Chibok Suicide Attack

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At least 14 people were killed on Wednesday when two male and three female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in Chibok, Borno State.

The attack occurred nearly two years after 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants in the town.

About 60 people, including two soldiers injured in the attack are receiving treatments in various hospitals in the state.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which has been using suicide bombers since the Army expelled the group from much of the northern territory it had captured previously.

Boko Haram has been waging a six-year armed campaign in the north eastern part of Nigeria to build an Islamic state and also end Western education in the region.

Thousands have been killed and more than two million people displaced by the campaign.

Reports say the suicide bombers stormed the sub market in Chibok on motorcycles at about 12.54PM local time, after which explosions were heard.

In April 2014, Boko Haram militants raided a government secondary school in Chibok taking away girls that were taking their examinations at that time.

They loaded 270 of them into trucks and disappeared, though about 50 escaped soon afterwards.

The others have not been seen, but the government has continued to promise that the girls would be rescued.