KANO, Nigeria: A girl thought to be as young as seven killed herself and seven others in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria on Sunday (Monday in Manila) as President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his government had initially underrated the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.

The attack on a market in the city of Potiskum, the commercial capital of Yobe state, was the latest in a string of suicide strikes in which children have been used.

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