Girl Suicide Bomber Kills 16 People in Northern Nigeria

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Lagos, Ramadan 6, 1436, Jun 23, 2015, SPA -- A girl suicide bomber killed 16 people in north-eastern Nigeria, a local government official said Tuesday. "The suicide bomber, who is about 12-years-old, detonated her bomb in the market at Wagir village" in Yobe State, said Nuhu Hassan, an official from the Gujba local government area in which Wagir is located. According to dpa, the girl arrived on a motorcycle and walked to a crowded section of the market to detonate the bomb, according to Hassan. About 30 others were heavily injured in the attack, the official said. The blast comes a day after two girls carried out twin suicide bombings in another north-eastern town, Maiduguri, killing 32 people. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks. --SPA 20:25 LOCAL TIME 17:25 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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