Suicide bombers struck two bus stations in different parts of northern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding scores in what bore the hallmarks of revenge attacks by embattled Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
In the first one, a suicide bomber rushed onto a bus in the northeastern town of Potiskum before setting off a blast that destroyed the bus and killed 16 people, according to security and hospital sources.
A police spokesman for Yobe state, Gbadegesin Toyin, said the bomber was a man, but that some witnesses had mistakenly said it was a teenage girl who was in fact one of the victims.