A female
suicide bomber killed herself and a soldier outside an army barracks in
Nigeria's northeastern city of Gombe on Sunday, the military said, as local
leaders reported the death count from a string of earlier militant attacks had
reached 110.
No one
claimed responsibility for the blast or last week's assaults but Islamist group
Boko Haram has set off bombs and killed thousands in its five-year-old bid to
carve out an Islamist state in the region.
Soldiers
stopped the woman as she tried to get into the barracks with explosives hidden
under her robes, defence headquarters said in a statement.
The device
went off, killing her and a soldier searching her, it added. "I heard a loud
sound and then black smoke covering the place ... We saw soldiers moving
bodies," Gombe trader Bello Kasuwankatako told Reuters.
Witnesses had earlier said between three and
five people died.
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