Suicide bomber dies in botched attack in NE Nigeria

[WorldNews]

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A suspected Boko Haram bomber was killed and a security guard was wounded Saturday in a botched suicide attack on a crowded market in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, vigilantes told AFP. The attacker detonated his explosives at the entrance to the weekly market in Rumurigo village in Askira Uba district when vigilantes insisted on searching him, they said. "The bomber arrived at the entrance of the market around 11:00 am and our men insisted on screening him as with every person going into the market but he just blew himself up, injuring a vigilante on the arm," one of the vigilantes, Markus Yohana, told AFP.

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