Death toll rises to 15 in Maiduguri attack

The death toll in the suicide attacks in Maiduguri, Borno state capital, has risen to 15.

Damian Chukwu, commissioner of police (CP) in the state, had told reporters that 13 people died, while 18 others sustained injuries.

But on Wednesday afternoon, Bashir Tahir, chairman of the medical advisory committee (CMAC), University of Maiduguri Teaching (UMTH), said two more victims of the attack had died.

Tahir said that 30 people were brought to the hospital after the attacks, adding that one of the patients had internal injury died

Boko Haram insurgents took the military and residents of Borno unawares on Wednesday. The fighters engaged security personnel in a gunbattle that lasted hours.