A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people on Tuesday in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria's Borno state, military and hospital sources said, three days after a multiple bomb attack in the city killed more than 50. Maiduguri is the birthplace of radical Islamist Boko Haram insurgents who have been fighting for six years to revive a medieval Islamic caliphate in north-east Nigeria.
The militants tried to seize the city at the end of January, killing more than 100 people in the attack, and again in early February. On Tuesday, a loud blast rocked Maiduguri just after 4 pm (1500 GMT) and a military source at the scene said a woman had detonated her bomb at a roundabout near the Monday Market, which has been attacked numerous times before. Passer-by Abdulaziz Olawale, who was a few metres (yards) away when the bomb went off, said he believed it had been the work of a female suicide bomber, and that he had seen her charred and dismembered body.
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