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Two female suicide bombers have
attacked a mosque in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri,
killing 22 worshippers, the army says.
The first bomber struck
inside the mosque, while the second blew herself up outside as survivors
tried to flee, eye witnesses told the BBC.Eighteen other people were wounded in the attack, the army added.
Maiduguri is the birthplace of Islamist group Boko Haram's insurgency which has killed 20,000 people since 2009.
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Analysis: Martin Patience, BBC Nigeria correspondent
He said that the militant group could no longer mount "conventional attacks" against security forces or population centres.
That may be true but it does not mean the conflict is over - far from it.
The Nigerian army may have recaptured towns and villages that were controlled by the Islamist militants but Boko Haram still has bases and responded by switching tactics.
It now uses improvised explosive devices to attack the military and increasingly deploys children and women as suicide bombers to hit soft targets such as mosques.
The group is also staging cross-border attacks in neighbouring countries. Belatedly, there is now the realisation that the group is a regional threat.
But as we've seen in Iraq and Afghanistan, militants groups with dedicated followers can sustain their violent campaigns for many years.
And as this latest attack in Maiduguri shows, the bombers are extremely difficult to stop.