Bomb kills at least six in Nigerian city of Maiduguri

A bomb blast shook the city of Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria's Borno state, on Tuesday, killing at least six people, military and hospital sources said, three days after a multiple bomb attack in the city killed more than 50 people.

A loud blast was heard by a witness just after 4 pm. A military source who was directing soldiers at the scene said the bomb had gone off at a roundabout near the Monday Market, which has been bombed numerous times in the past.

Passer-by Abdulaziz Olawale, who was a few metres 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.

"The place was very busy. Many people were waiting to pick up taxis and some were walking down the road when the blast occurred," he said. The city of about 2 million people was hit by several bombs on Saturday, some of them inside the Monday Market, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Maiduguri is the birthplace of the group, which has been fighting for six years to carve out an Islamic state in northeast 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. Suspected Boko Haram militants also attacked the town of Ngamdu on the border of Yobe and Borno states on Tuesday, killing at least a dozen people.

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