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Female suicide bombers suspected in Nigeria presidential rally blast

Two female suicide bombers were suspected of being behind a blast on Monday outside a stadium in northeast Nigeria, where President Goodluck Jonathan had given a speech, officials and rescue workers said.

"We have evacuated two bodies of females we believe were suicide bombers behind the blast," said one rescue worker after the explosion in Gombe city.

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