Over 45 dead in Maiduguri market bombings

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Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau and his lieutenants

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau

More than 45 people died Tuesday in twin bombings in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a local health worker and witnesses told AFP.

Health worker Dogara Shehu said he counted more than “45 people killed, some of them completely decapitated” in an account backed up by a witness, who declined to give his name.

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A spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that “many people have been killed” but did not have an official death toll.

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