The death count continues to rise as search and rescue teams uncover more victims from a triple suicide bombing in the northeastern Nigerian town of Konduga.
Authorities say three Boko Haram jihadists detonated their explosives outside a location where football fans were watching a match on TV on Sunday evening.
“The death toll from the attack has so far increased to 30. We have over 40 people injured,” Usman Kachalla, head of operations at the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), said on Monday.
An earlier toll from the blasts, the bloodiest in months, gave 17 dead and 17 wounded.
Boko Haram has targeted Konduga in the past, including a February 2018 triple suicide bombing at a fish market that killed at least 18 people. In July, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a mosque in Konduga, killing eight worshippers.
In September, a Boko Haram faction raided Amarwa, a town in Konduga district, along with another nearby village. The fighters fired indiscriminately at residents fleeing their homes, a local militia leader said at the time.
