Two female suicide bombers kill more than 45 people in Nigeria

More than 45 people have died in twin bombings in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a local health worker and witnesses have told AFP.

Health worker Dogara Shehu said he counted more than "45 people killed, some of them completely decapitated" in an account backed up by a witness, who declined to give his name.

A spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that "many people have been killed" but did not have an official death toll for Tuesday's attack.