Female suicide bomber kills 16 in northeast Nigeria: Police

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A female suicide bomber killed 16 people on Sunday at a bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu, the latest in a spate of similar attacks blamed on Boko Haram, police said. “There has been an attack on the Damaturu Central Motor Park by a female suicide bomber,” said Marcos Danladi, the police commissioner of Yobe State, of which Damaturu is the capital. “So far, seven people have been confirmed dead and 32 others injured,” he told AFP. Witnesses said the assailant entered the motor park in a vehicle, got out and walked towards a small grocery store at the end of the terminal.                           

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