Blast in market of Nigeria’s Maiduguri kills at least 16

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A bomb explosion in a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Saturday killed at least 16 people and injured more than 20, a security source and witnesses said on Saturday. Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, is often bombed as it lies in the heartland of an insurgency by Sunni Muslim militants Boko Haram to revive a medieval caliphate in Africa’s most populous country, also the continent’s biggest energy producer. A Nigerian security source said at least 11 people were killed and 24 injured by a bomb that went off at 12:15 p.m.(6.15 p.m. ET). …
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