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Two suicide bomb blasts along a highway in northeast Nigeria
killed at least 10 people on Thursday afternoon, state police said, the latest
in a string of almost daily attacks by suspected Islamist militants.
Reuters reports a female
suicide bomber killed seven and injured 13 at a village called Malari on the
main road from Bama to Konduga while a second suicide bomber killed three in
blast along the same road, Borno state police chief Aderemi Opadokun said.
A military source said in
both cases the suicide bombers targeted crowded areas where locals sell fruit
along the highway, which runs southeast of the state capital Maiduguri.
Thousands of people have
been killed and about 1.5 million displaced during Boko Haram's six-year fight
to create an Islamic caliphate in the northeast of Africa's top oil producer.
Boko Haram controlled an
area roughly the size of Belgium at the end of 2014 before a military offensive
seized much of the territory in the first few months of this year.
The militants have since
mostly resorted to deadly hit-and-run attacks on remote villages and the use of
suicide bombers.
Opadokun also confirmed
Boko Haram attacked the town of Kukawa not far from Lake Chad on Wednesday
evening. He said the attackers killed "many" and burned down houses.
The state police chief did
not give a death toll from the attack. He said at least eight injured residents
from Kukawa had been treated at a Maiduguri hospital.
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