On Tuesday the Nigerian security forces patrolled in the city of Maiduguri, where some 30 people lost their lives in an attack which is suspected was carried out by the Islamists. Eye witnesses including residents and vendors said that the gunmen who are believed to be the embers of the Islamist sect named Boko Haram, entered the fish section of the Baga market, and sprayed all the vendors and stallholders with bullets. On Tuesday the market reopened but the security forces ordered all shops to be shut down except the one which overlooks the police station. Bunu Ahmad said on that a large number of vendors did not open their shops for the mourning the loss of their friends killed in the attack, advising they have lost many of their colleagues.

According to medics and witnesses some 30 people lost their lives when the gunmen opened fire and the bombs planted by them were set-off inside the market. The attack appears to be a retaliation of the arrest of a suspected Islamist last week in the same market. The military has rejected that there were any civilian victims, saying that it had only shot at eight attackers.

Spokesman of a special military unit of the city, Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, said that the Nigerian military immediately came to the rescue, and then very carefully detonated the three bombs which were planted by the members of the suspected Islamist sect, then shot to death eight of its members. On Tuesday some funerals of the civilian victims of the attack took place.

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