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Three suicide bombers kill four people in northeast Nigeria

A screengrab from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremists (PHOTO: BBC)

ABUJA: Three suicide bombers killed four people and injured eight others in a village near the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a police spokesman said on Sunday.

A man and two women blew themselves up when they were challenged by a member of the Civilian JTF, a government-approved militia group, just outside Maiduguri, the city worst hit by jihadist group Boko Haram's eight-year insurgency.

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