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]]> For two days in a row, Boko Haram’s been sending young girls as suicide bombers leaving more than 20 people dead in Nigeria’s lawless northeast.

Witnesses in the town of Potiskum, in Yobe state say two girls walked into a market selling cell phones on Sunday and blew themselves up.

The girl bomb carriers as young as 10 years old are either sacrificed by their Boko Haram parents or kidnapped and forced to do the deadly work.

A trader in Potiskum says he saw the plaited hair and upper part of the torsos of the young suicide bombers yesterday.

Four people died in that attack

In Maidiguri a day earlier a 10 year old suicide bomber killed 19 people.

Last month a ten year old girl escaped and told authorities she had been beaten and threatened by Boko Haram militants who tried to force her to strap on an explosive belt and sacrifice herself.

 

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