Nigeria. Nigeria has once again been rocked by suicide attacks. At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously injured in a series of suicide attacks in northeastern Nigeria. Emergency services reported the incident on Saturday. 

In one of the three blasts in the town of Gwoza, a female bomber with a child tied to her back detonated her explosives in the middle of a wedding ceremony, according to a police spokesman.

Other attacks in the Cameroonian border town targeted a hospital and a funeral for victims of an earlier blast at a wedding, officials said.

At least 18 people were killed and 42 others injured in the attacks, according to the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).

Women and children are also among the dead

"So far 18 people have been reported dead, including children, men, women and pregnant women," the agency's head Barkindo Saidu said in a report seen by AFP.

Saidu said in the report that 19 "seriously injured" people were rushed to the regional capital Maiduguri, while 23 others were awaiting rescue.

The security post was also attacked

A member of a militia assisting the army in Gwoza said two of his comrades and a soldier were also killed in another attack on a security checkpoint, though authorities did not immediately confirm the number.

Boko Haram militants seized Gwoza in 2014 when the group seized control of large parts of northern Borno.

The Nigerian army, with help from Chadian forces, retook the town in 2015, but the group has continued to launch attacks from the mountains near the city since then.

More than 40 thousand died

Boko Haram has carried out raids, killing men and abducting women who venture out of town in search of wood and acacia fruit.

The violence has killed more than 40,000 people in Nigeria's northeast and displaced nearly two million.