A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device
strapped on her body near a market in the northeastern Nigerian State of Borno,
killing at least three people, police and civilian vigilante sources said on
Saturday.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist
militant group Boko Haram, which has conducted a six-year insurgency to carve
out a caliphate in Nigeria's northeast.
A vigilante source said four people were killed and seven injured when the
explosive went off at a checkpoint, targeting the vigilantes at the entrance of
the Ramirgo market.
Ishiaku Dawa, a resident who helped take victims to the hospital, said the blast
damaged two patrol vehicles and that four bodies were sent to the hospital.
"Three persons including the suicide bomber died on the spot. Corpses and
injured victims evacuated to General hospital," Borno State Police Commissioner
Aderemi Opadokun, who visited the scene, told Reuters in a text message.
Via: Reuters.
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