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The army had earlier put the corpse count at 30.
"From our updated records we have 45 dead and 33 injured in the twin suicide bomb kabooms in Madagali," said Sa'ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Adamawa state.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the blasts bore all the hallmarks of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
, which regularly uses women and maidens to carry out suicide kabooms in its seven-year Lion of Islam campaign in the troubled region.
Military front man Badare Akintoye had earlier said "at least 30 people have been killed in the suicide kaboom
s carried out by two A local government official and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed the attack.
"The two bombers who (were) disguised as customers, detonated their suicide belts at the section of the market selling grains and second-hand clothing," said Yusuf Muhammad, the chairman of Madagali local government.
The attack on Madagali, which was recaptured by Nigerian forces from Boko Haram jihadists in 2015, was the third time the town has been targeted since December last year when two
Market trader Habu Ahmad said Friday's blasts happened around 9:30 am (0830 GMT).