Suicide bombs kill over 60 in Northeast Nigeria

Suicide bombs have killed at least 64 people in multiple blasts in Nigeria’s northeastern towns of Gombe and Damaturu, officials said, scaring people into staying home during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr celebration.

Police say two women suicide bombers killed 12 people at two prayer grounds in Damaturu on Friday morning as people were preparing to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

A few hours’ earlier two bombs killed 50 people buying goods for the holiday at the market in Gombe, according to National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Sani Datti. Another 75 wounded are being treated in two hospitals there, he said.

The blasts are blamed on Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram takfiri group which has launched a string of attacks that has killed hundreds during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.