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FILE: A man walks past a the scene of a bombing after at least 20 people were killed when a young female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a bus station in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on June 22, 2015 in an attack likely to be blamed on Boko Haram. Picture: AFP

Nigeria bomb blast

Two suicide bombers kill 8 in northeast Nigeria's Maiduguri

By Reuters

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attacks bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram.

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