Barkindo Saidu, director general of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, said suspected suicide bombers separately attacked a wedding, funeral and hospital, killing and injuring several people in the town of Gwoza. Saidu said 18 deaths had been confirmed, a toll that included children, adults and pregnant women. “The degree of injuries ranges from abdominal ruptures, scull fractures, and limb fractures,” he said. Borno is at the centre of a 15-year Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands of people and displaced millions more.
