About seventeen persons have been killed in a multiple blasts that rocked a village in Borno state.

Sources said that dozens sustained different degrees of injuries in the attack, though no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

The incident occurred at Mandarari village, in Konduga local government area of Borno state.

According to the sources, three suicide bombers detonated Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, at a viewing centre which killed no fewer than seventeen people, including a mobile policeman.

As at the time of filing this report, the Military and Police have not issued any official statement to ascertain the magnitude of the attack. However, some sources at the State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, have confirmed the same figure.

Officials of the agency were on their way to Konduga, as at the time of filing this report, to evacuate the dead and convey the injured to the hospital.  

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