Cameroon denies claims army killed civilians in Nigeria

Such attacks are blamed on Boko Haram Islamic extremists who have turned to suicide bombings of soft targets since troops a year ago forced them out of towns and villages.

Abubakar said 17 others were injured.

“There was a suicide explosion at the grain section of the market around midday”.

Following the blast, the market closed down and all the traders returned home, he added.

The President of the group, (General Egalitarian), Comrade Idris Usman stated this during an interaction with newsmen when he visited some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in Yola, Adamawa State.

“Twenty-one wounded people have already been taken to Askira Uba General Hospital”, Ali said by phone. They loaded 270 of them onto trucks and disappeared, though about 50 escaped soon afterwards.

According to a statement issued by Femi Adesina, the president’s special adviser on media and publicity, Buhari further noted that Boko Haram’s capacity to conduct attacks has been “heavily degraded”.

Former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Wednesday, January 27, in Switzerland, defended his administration and also accused the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of fighting the war against insurgency with the arms which were procured under his government.

Boko Haram have of recent resort to using attacks from the outskirts of Maiduguri city to create some detour to enable suicide bombers sneak into the city to attack populated residential areas.

“Soft” civilian targets such as markets, mosques and bus stations have frequently been hit. The group operates mainly around Lake Chad, the Sambisa forest reserve and the mountainous region bordering Cameroon.