Co-ordinated attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria targeted a wedding, the victims’ subsequent funeral, and a hospital in the town of Gwoza in the country’s terror-prone northeastern Borno state.
The BBC reports that at least 18 people were killed and 30 injured in the series of deadly blasts, thought to have been carried out by female suicide bombers.
A curfew has been imposed by the military.
No-one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the BBC notes that Nigeria-centred Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) insurgents have previously claimed responsibility for deadly bombings in Borno.
In the last four months, attackers have twice targeted people through suicide and improvised explosive devices in Borno state.
Borno state has been at the centre of a 15-year insurgency by Boko Haram Islamist militants, which has displaced more than two million people and killed more than 40,000.
Boko Haram gained international notoriety in 2014 when it kidnapped more than 270 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, also in Borno state.