An Al Jazeera report says a man blew himself up at Gamboru cattle market, according to witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. One said he counted at least 20 bodies.
More than 30 people had already died in boko haram attacks over the weekend.
Today’s bomb in the market went off around 1:00pm local time, killing shoppers and travellers, a military source said today.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the latest explosion, which follows two bomb attacks over the weekend that killed at least 30 people and bore the hallmarks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
Lawal Kawu, a paramedic, said 31 charred bodies had been evacuated to the teaching hospital in Maiduguri, and several other people were brought in with severe injuries.
Witnesses said they heard a loud explosion.
“It shook our school building and I had to run away. I saw military vehicles with soldiers moving towards the area,” Abubakar Mohammed, a college student, few meters away from the blast scene told Reuters.
President Muhammadu Buhari announced on Friday that he is moving the military headquarters of the war from Abuja, the capital in central Nigeria, to Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram.
On May 30, a major blast killed at least 30 people as 29 heads of state and leading diplomats were in the capital Abuja for the innauguration of the country’s new president.