Nigeria: At least 13 killed in a triple suicide Chibok

Three suicide bombers blew themselves up Wednesday, killing at least 13 people in the city of Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria, where the Islamist group Boko Haram has abducted more than 200 high school students in 2014, reported local officials.
The attacks, which occurred around  (11h00 PM GMT), targeted market standing that day, told AFP an official, Ayuba Chibok.
Ten people were killed at the scene of the explosions, another died when she was taken to hospital and two others, a woman and a child, died from their injuries while they were being treated, said Dazzban Buba, a social worker present at the city hospital.
Thirty other people were injured, including 21 seriously, while nine have been discharged after receiving treatment, he said. Most victims suffer from burns and fractures.
"These are suicide attacks. The first (suicide bomber) has operated its explosive charge at a checkpoint at the entrance of the city where people were searched," he told Ayuba Chibok.
"A second managed to enter the market and blew himself up," he added. "A third was not identified and pursued the inhabitants. When he saw that he would be arrested, he detonated his explosives in an area close to the market."
This triple bombing caused a sense of fear, said Ayuba Chibok, telling the inhabitants that were cloistered in their homes while others fled the city for fear of more explosions.
The procedure reminiscent of Boko Haram, which regularly targets civilians gathering places like markets, mosques and bus stations, as well as civil and military roadblocks, bombs being actuated minutes apart.
The city had been the target of the jihadist group that attacked a school for young girls in April 2014 and removed 276 of them, of which 219 remain imprisoned and appeared for the last time in a video released in May. This mass abduction had raised a wave of global outrage.
In November, Boko Haram took control for a few days in the city before being chased by the army.
Boko Haram has suffered setbacks on the ground in north-eastern Nigeria from a cons-offensive launched in September by the Nigerian army and its regional allies. However, the group multiplies the attacks against civilians and also covers border areas in Cameroon and Chad.
At least 32 people were killed Monday in three suicide bombings on the market of a village in the far north of Cameroon. It was the third attack in the region since the beginning of the year attributed to Boko Haram, which has also hit three times in Nigeria since the beginning of the year, killing fifteen people.