DHAKA: Three bombings rocked separate targets in northeast Nigeria’s largest city of Maiduguri on Saturday, killing at least 33 people, witnesses and a local official told the media, in violence blamed on Boko Haram.

The first attack was carried out by a female suicide bomber at the Baga fish market at roughly 11.20am local time, said Abubakar Gamandi, the head of the fisherman’s union in Borno State, of which Maiduguri is the capital.

‘A female suicide bomber exploded as soon as she stepped out of a motorised rickshaw,’ said Gamandi, who was at the scene. ‘Eighteen people were killed.’

About an hour later, a bomb blast hit the popular Monday Market, killing another 15 people, according to Gamandi, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1944 HRS, MAR 07, 2015