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A suicide
bomber killed at least 23 people in a procession of Shi'ite Muslims marking the
ritual of Ashoura in northeast Nigeria's Yobe state on Monday, witnesses said.
In a
separate incident overnight in central Kogi state, gunmen using explosives blew
their way into a prison in the city of Lokoja, killing one person and freeing
144 inmates, Adams Omale, prisons coordinator for the state, told Reuters.
In the
suicide bombing in Potiskum in Yobe state, a territory at the heart of an
insurgency by Sunni Muslim Boko Haram rebels, the attacker joined the line of
Shi'ites before setting off his device as they marched through a market in the
town, resident Yusuf Abdullahi said.
