Witnesses say four female
suicide bombers have killed 13 civilians and wounded 30 in
explosions at a market in the Chibok hometown of Nigeria's
kidnapped schoolgirls.
A man at the scene says the blasts began Wednesday when
soldiers tried to search a young woman covered in a hijab in
the northeast Nigerian town. Then three women inside the
market exploded in quick succession. The man insisted on
anonymity for fear of reprisals.
A Chibok community leader in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, said
another blast occurred at a military checkpoint in Chibok.
Tsambo Hosea Abana says relatives called to tell him his uncle
and 15-year-old niece are among the wounded.
He blamed Boko Haram Islamic extremists who kidnapped nearly
300 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014 of whom 219 remain missing.
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