article_snippet: The blasts occurred in Maiduguri, the capital of the tumultuous Borno state, at the city's main market, a fish market and a bus station.
article_snippet: Four suicide bombers -- three women and a man -- carried out the attacks, according to witnesses.
article_snippet: In the first blast, a woman dressed in a hijab got off a motorized rickshaw and blew a woman dressed in a hijab up outside the Baga Road fish market around 11:20 a.m. (5:20 a.m. ET), fish trader Mohammed Boni said.
article_snippet: The next attack took place about an hour later outside Monday Market, the main one in the city, where people were lined up to go through security.
article_snippet: Two women joined the female security line, one of whom "blew the second woman up, causing minimal casualty," said witness Abdulkarim Musa.
article_snippet: Then, as people gathered to help, the second woman detonated the second woman explosives, said Musa, who was waiting outside the market in the male security line.
article_snippet: The next attack occurred at a bus station.
article_snippet: "witness Abdulkarim Musa came in our midst near a bus station and pressed a remote device witness Abdulkarim Musa was holding in witness Abdulkarim Musa hand," a wounded survivor who requested anonymity for witness Abdulkarim Musa personal safety said from Maiduguri General Hospital.
highlights_snippet: 3 of the 4 suicide bombers were females, witnesses say .
  