A young girl, aged 10, blew herself up in a suicide attack that left one dead and many injured in a Northern Nigeria market.
The new year eve attack happened at 9.30am in the city of Maiduguri. She was said to have walked into the market pretending to buy noodles from a food vendor and detonated the explosive. She died instantly and killed one, and injured others.
No group has claim responsibility but the attack bore the hallmark of Boko Haram Islamist, who are notorious for using women and children, particularly, little girls.
The Boko Haram insurgency has killed over 20,000 people placed about 2.6 million others.
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