Suicide Bomber Strikes Vegetable Market In Maiduguri

File Photo: Yobe Sunday market bombing

A woman suicide bomber killed many people at a crowded market early Friday in a blast that thundered across the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses said.

Trader Bukar Shettima said the explosion blamed on Boko Haram Islamic extremists lifted him off his feet and threw him to the ground. "Thank God I was not too close," he said. "But I saw nauseating corpses and battered bodies of humans littering the ground."

There was no exact toll from the carnage at Gamboru wholesale vegetable market as rescuers were still recovering bodies.

Most bombings have involved women or girls as young as 10, raising fears that the extremists are using kidnap victims as weapons. A bomb disposal expert has said that most of the suicide bombers are strapped to explosives that are remotely detonated.

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