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Urgent: Female suicide bomber attacks market in northeast Nigeria: witnesses

Xinhua, February 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least 6 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in a market of the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Sunday, witnesses told Xinhua.

The female suicide bomber detonated a bomb attached to her body at the checkpoint to the market, killing herself and 5 others and wounding dozens, witnesses sa