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Young Nigerian girls blow themselves up at market, hurt 'at least 17'

Published: 11 Dec 2016 - 02:02 pm | Last Updated: 02 Nov 2021 - 05:26 am
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AFP

Kano, Nigeria: Two little girls approximately seven or eight years old blew themselves up in a northeastern Nigerian market on Sunday, killing themselves and wounding at least 17 others, witnesses said.

The girls "must have been seven or eight", a local militia member in Maiduguri told AFP.

Emergency services on-site in the town, the epicentre of the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency, said 17 people sustained "relatively serious" injuries.