The death toll from Thursday’s attack on Molai mosque has risen to 30, according to the spokesman of NEMA, AbdulKadir Ibrahim. Ibrahim in a text message said: "Suicide bombers attacked Molai village on 15 October 2015 around 6:11pm.
"A suicide bomber came on a bicycle and attacked the mosque where the community were observing the Magrib prayer. After the first attack, the civilian JTF (youth volunteers vigilante), relatives and other
people who came to rescue the victims, unknown to them the second suicide bomber was around and he detonated his explosive right in their midst killing more people.
Thirty people were killed and have been deposited at the mortuary of the Borno state specialist hospital, seven persons are in critical condition." There was multiple explosions at Umarari village near Molai, a suburb of Maiduguri, the capital of troubled Borno state, Northeast Nigeria, a
resident Idris Mohammed told our correspondent on phone.
He said the explosions were about 5am and 5:20am on Friday during which three female suicide bombers about 10 years old ran into houses in the village detonating bombs strapped on them.
He disclosed that seven persons, including the three suicide bombers died
in the attack, He equally said twenty other persons were injured and have been assisted by the villagers to hospital in Maiduguri.
Confirming the incident, the spokesman of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the Northeast, AbdulKadir Ibrahim in a text message said: "At Umarari Bayan Waya, at around 5am today, 16th October 2015 there was an attack.
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