Suicide Bomber Kills Herself, Five Others In Yobe Blast – Witnesses

A young girl suicide bomber Sunday blew herself up and
five others when the explosive devices strapped to her
body detonated in a market in Nigeria’s northesatern city
of Potiskum, witnesses said.

Nineteen others who sustained various degrees of injury
were taken to hospital after the blast, a local vigilante
leader told AFP.

“So far, five people were killed with the girl while 19
others have been taken to hospital for injuries,” Buba
Lawan said. Witnesses said she appeared to be as young
as seven-years-old.