Suicide bombing attacks foiled in Nigeria
Civilian vigilantes foiled a suicide attack on the outskirts of Nigeria's flashpoint city of Maiduguri, killing two teenaged female bombers, police said yesterday. Boko Haram has regularly used suicide bombers in their eight-year insurgency, which seeks to establish a hardline Islamist state. The Boko Haram violence has claimed at least 20,000 and forced some 2.6 million others to flee their home, triggering a dire humanitarian crisis in the region.
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