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Nigeria: Four female suicide bombers kill 2, injure 16 in Maiduguri

Four teenage girls have struck Nigeria’s northeastern town of Maiduguri in the Borno State Wednesday morning killing two people in a residential area.
16 people were injured in the bomb attack and are receiving treatment, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

“Rescue and health workers had immediately moved to scene after the alert. The victims have been transported to the state specialist hospital and university teaching hospital in Maiduguri,” spokesperson of NEMA in the area, Abdulkadir Ibrahim confirmed to local media.

 

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