While 57 of them are at the Borno State Specialist Hospital, 62 are from the Umaru Shehu Ultra-modern hospital in Maiduguri.
DailyPost reports that some of the corpses which have started decomposing had to be evacuated for mass burial at the outskirts of the city owing to lack space in the morgue.
Sources within the two hospitals visited by DailyPost said several complains were made from the public, especially those living behind the State Specialist Hospital at Hausari, as well as members of staff of the hospital.
It could be recalled that Governor Kashim Shettima, who was at the scene of the blast, condemned the act, describing it as un-Islamic, barbaric and inhuman.
The Governor, who thanked the Civilian JTF for their gallantry, assured them that N1 million would be paid to each family of the deceased to alleviate their suffering.
He also directed the state commissioner of Police, Alhaji Lawal Tanko to liase with the leadership of the Civilian JTF to immediately identify the families of the deceased members to collect the financial assistance.
Shettima who was at the Umaru Shehu and State Specialist Hospitals to sympathized with the victims of the blast also directed the commissioner of health to pay special care to the victims, as government would settle all their medical bills and feedings.
However, families of victims and those who lost their lives had while speaking to DailyPost at the State Specialists Hospital where they went with the hope of identifying their relations said nobody had spoken to them yet on the promise made by the Governor during his visit.
A man in his early 60s, who identified himself as Alhaji Umar Maitukunya, said his son Salisu, a member of the vigilante, popularly called Civilian JTF was also killed in the blast.
According to him, since on Tuesday when they got the news, they had been at the hospitals to look for their son but could not identify him among the over hundred corpses they saw.
Speaking on the issue of compensation, he told our correspondent that he was at the hospital to find the corpse of his son and to give him proper Islamic burial.
He said, "what has happened, has happened, I cannot reverse it.
"Some people have told us that government is going to pay 'diya'- (Islamic way of compensating for dead), but nobody has contacted us".
Also relatives of the injured persons, who are now receiving treatment at the hospitals had said that they were buying some of the medication from their money.
They adding that neither the doctors nor the nurses told them about any directives from the state government on settlement of their bills and feeding while in the hospital.
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