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Troops Gun Down Suicide Bomber In Northeast Nigeria

FILE - In his file image taken from video released late Friday evening, Oct. 31, 2014, by Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, centre, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group. Boko Haram fighters have shot or burned to death about 90 civilians and wounded 500 in ongoing fighting in a Cameroonian border town near Nigeria, officials in Cameroon said Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Boko Haram,File)
Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency says troops have gunned down a suicide bomber at a transit camp for refugees from Boko Haram in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.

The Saturday attack is the sixth in three weeks in the Nigerian city that was the birthplace of the Islāmic extremist uprising that has killed more than 20 000 people in seven years. Security forces have foiled most of the attacks.

On Friday, five suicide bombers targeted a police checkpoint and a bus station near the transit camp, killing four of themselves and two civilian self-defense fighters. The fifth bomber was arrested.

PR Nigeria news agency reports that Saturday’s attacker was shot as he tried to detonate himself near the same camp.

Boko Haram has recently stepped up attacks after a months-long lull.

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