November 19, 2015

Female suicide bombers kill 15 in northeast Nigeria

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Thursday 19 Nov 2015 - 11:10 Makkah mean time-7-2-1437

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Kano (IINA) – At least 15 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers, one said to be aged around 11, blew themselves up at a busy mobile phone market in northeast Nigeria, a day after more than 30 were killed in a bomb blast.
"A minibus carrying some women came to the Farm Centre GSM market and dropped off one girl aged about 11 and another aged about 18, both wore the hijab," said Kano police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia.
"One went inside the market, the other stayed outside then they exploded, killing themselves and others nearby," he told AFP.
Boko Haram has previously used young girls as human bombs in its six-year insurgency in northeast Nigeria that has left at least 17,000 dead and made more than 2.6 million homeless.
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