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MAIDUGURI—The death  toll from Tuesday’s bomb blast in Maiduguri has risen to 43, hospital sources and emergency workers said. The development forced tears out of Governor Kashim Shettima on seeing the magnitude of the mayhem.

This was even as Borno Elite for Peace, Stability and Progress, BESP, called on security agencies to invite former governor of the state, Alhaji Modu-Sheriff for questioning over the recent bomb blast in Maiduguri, saying he was an enemy of the state.

It also asked Sheriff to name the bombers having allegedly claimed that Boko Haram was not responsible for the attack, or remain silent.

However, some of the survivors are now receiving treatment at the General Mamman Shuwa Memorial hospital even as most of those killed were youth who sell recharge cards and handset accessories at the GSM Market around the Post Office area. Their bodies were deposited at the mortuary of the State Specialists Hospital now being gua