MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: At least seven people were killed on Thursday (Friday in Manila) when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a crowded market in northeast Nigeria, witnesses and a health official said.

The mid-afternoon attack in Biu, 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of the Borno state capital Maiduguri is the latest in a spate of similar attacks in the troubled region.

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