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Chadian soldiers patrol in the Nigerian border town of
Gamboru after taking control of the city on February 4, 2015 ©Stephane Yas
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A young girl suicide bomber blew herself up and killed
five others Sunday in an attack on a market in the northeastern Nigerian city
of Potiskum, witnesses and a hospital source said. Nineteen others who sustained
various degrees of injury were taken to hospital after the blast in Potiskum,
Yobe state's commercial capital, a local vigilante leader told AFP.
"So far, five people were killed with the girl
while 19 others have been taken to hospital for injuries," Buba Lawan
said.
Witnesses said she appeared to be as young as
seven-years-old and was the latest in a string of child suicide bombers in
Nigeria. Previous such attacks have been blamed on Islamist extremist group
Boko Haram.
A hospital source speaking on condition of anonymity
confirmed the toll of the dead and the wounded.
It was the second such suicide attack around the same
market, where new and second-hand phones are sold and repaired.
The first attack occurred January 11, when two suicide
bombers, one of them appearing to be around 15 years old, blew themselves up
outside the market. The attack killed six and injured 37 others.
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