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Suicide bombers killed a minimum of six people and wounded fourteen
in a over flowing market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Madagali on Friday,
the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said.
A police representative had earlier said 15 were killed, and didn't establish any suspects.
Suicide bombings are common in Nigeria's northeast, the centre of a bloody campaign by Islamist group Boko Haram to form an Islamic state. Madagali was also hit last month, when female child suicide bombers killed as many as 56 people in an exceedingly coordinated attack on a market.
Friday's attacks, which bore the hallmark of islamist militant group Boko Haram, followed a twin attack of bombings last week in Borno state, where the Boko Haram insurgence began, undermining a presidential announcement last month that the militants had been pushed out of their last defence in the northeast.
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a video denying President Muhammadu Buhari's statement that the Islamist group had been ousted from the region.
Boko Haram's seven-year-old insurgence, aimed toward establishing a medieval-style caliphate in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, has killed there about 15,000 people and displaced up to 2 million people.
Aid teams and international organisations now warn of a looming humanitarian crisis as people displaced by the insurgence have become prone to illness and famine, even within camps established to shelter them.
In early 2015, Boko Haram controlled an area about the dimensions of Belgium, but has been driven out of much of it over the past year by Nigeria's army and troops from neighbouring countries.
Boko Haram insurgents have since disengaged to a base within the Sambisa forest, an enormous former game reserve in Borno state.
Security analysts say the jihadists' ability to carry out attacks in neighbouring Niger, Cameroon and Chad suggests that it has multiple bases.
A police representative had earlier said 15 were killed, and didn't establish any suspects.
Suicide bombings are common in Nigeria's northeast, the centre of a bloody campaign by Islamist group Boko Haram to form an Islamic state. Madagali was also hit last month, when female child suicide bombers killed as many as 56 people in an exceedingly coordinated attack on a market.
Friday's attacks, which bore the hallmark of islamist militant group Boko Haram, followed a twin attack of bombings last week in Borno state, where the Boko Haram insurgence began, undermining a presidential announcement last month that the militants had been pushed out of their last defence in the northeast.
A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a video denying President Muhammadu Buhari's statement that the Islamist group had been ousted from the region.
Boko Haram's seven-year-old insurgence, aimed toward establishing a medieval-style caliphate in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, has killed there about 15,000 people and displaced up to 2 million people.
Aid teams and international organisations now warn of a looming humanitarian crisis as people displaced by the insurgence have become prone to illness and famine, even within camps established to shelter them.
In early 2015, Boko Haram controlled an area about the dimensions of Belgium, but has been driven out of much of it over the past year by Nigeria's army and troops from neighbouring countries.
Boko Haram insurgents have since disengaged to a base within the Sambisa forest, an enormous former game reserve in Borno state.
Security analysts say the jihadists' ability to carry out attacks in neighbouring Niger, Cameroon and Chad suggests that it has multiple bases.
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