Blasts kill at least 10 at market in Nigeria's Maiduguri

June 23, 2015 03:26

Two explosions killed at least 10 people at a crowded market in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday, witnesses and sources said.

The first attack was carried out by a female suicide bomber with firewood concealing explosives, a witness said. A second device hidden a few meters away exploded around five minutes later, said a military source.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people in a six-year insurgency in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation and top oil exporter.

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