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Kano - A young girl suicide bomber on Sunday blew herself up and five others when the explosive devices strapped to her body detonated in a market in Nigeria's northesatern city of Potiskum, witnesses said.

Nineteen others who sustained various degrees of injury were taken to hospital after the blast in Potiskum, Yobe state's commercial capital, a local vigilante leader told AFP.

"So far, five people were killed with the girl while 19 others have been taken to hospital for injuries," Buba Lawan said.

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