On Saturday, at a marriage celebration in the Nigerian town of Gwoza in the northeast, the first suspect detonated an explosive device.
Within minutes, a third attack occurred at a burial service, and then another explosion occurred close to a hospital.
The state emergency department claims that the suspect at the funeral was dressed as a mourner.
Among those slain were women carrying children, and 19 people with critical injuries.
“I have gathered emergency medications to supplement the lack of drugs in Gwoza,” stated Barkindo Saidu, the Borno State Emergency Management Agency’s director-general.
According to a statement released online, Nigeria’s president denounced the attacks and declared that his “government will not allow the nation to slither into an era of fear, tears, sorrow, and blood”.
Although no one took credit for the attacks, the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram’s 2009 insurgency has had a significant negative impact on Borno state.
The group may be using some of the thousands of people they have abducted as hostages, as evidenced by their prior use of women and girls in suicide bombs.
