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Two Female suicide bombers were killed on Wednesday night in an attempt to attack a military formation in Alikaramanti area in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The attackers were intercepted by the soldiers on duty in the area after Giwa Barracks before they hurriedly detonated the Improvised Explosive Device strapped to their bodies.
Confirming the attack in a statement on Thursday, the Police Public Relations Officer Mr Joseph Kwaji said operatives of the EOD team have rendered the area safe.
He added that the corpses and injured victims have been evacuated to the hospital while normalcy has since been restored in the area.
The latest attack comes a few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari stopped over in Maiduguri, before proceeding to Yobe State where he met with the parents of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls.
Boko Haram terrorists have continued to carry out series of attacks in the North East, although the Federal Government maintained that the insurgents have been terribly defeated.
On February 19, members of the outlawed group invaded the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, leaving 110 students unaccounted for.
President Buhari had, however, given an assurance that the Federal Government would not rest until all the students, as well as the remaining Chibok schoolgirls in the Boko Haram custody, are released and reunited with their families.
He had also sympathised with the families of those whose children were abducted by the insurgents and informed them that he had ordered the service chiefs to brief him on daily basis on the progress made to ensure their release.