Six persons working on their farms were injured on Tuesday when four suicide bombers attacked Mairi-Kwait, a suburb community located close to the University of Maiduguri.

Witnesses say multiple blasts were heard across the city at about 8.20 am to about 9.51 am on Tuesday.

Danbatta Bello, an official of the Civilian Joint Task Force, told newsmen that the attackers were trying to make their way through some barricades constructed around the University to ward off the numerous attacks that the school had witnessed since January this year.

According to him, one of the four female suicide bombers blew herself up in the bush not far away from the fortification, while three others came closer before detonating the explosives to their bodies.

The six farmers who were injured in the attacks were said to have been harvesting their crops at their nearby farm when the bombs went off.

“We have just returned from the scene of the blast which was near Mairi-Kwait,” Bello said.

“They were four female suicide bombers, and all of them got themselves killed in the blasts.

“One died in the bush, and three others died near the parapet after they detonated on a farmland where six farmers who were harvesting their crops got injured.”

The attacks come less than 24 hours after soldiers, supported by members of a local vigilante group and hunters, repelled an attack by Boko Haram insurgents in Gulak, headquarters of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

The incident was confirmed by Muhammadu Jibrilla, Governor of Adamawa.

“Nigerian Army supported by local hunters have rolled back the invading terrorists in Gulak,” Jibrilla told journalists via a phone interview.

“Though the areas are under Chibok Brigade, but I do call for minute by minute report on what is happening over there. God is giving victory to our security and hunters.”

So far there has been no word on the number of casualties in the attack except for one woman who was said to have died after she was hit by stray bullet.