Two young female suicide bombers, including one thought to be aged just 11, killed 15 people at a busy mobile phone market in Kano, northeast Nigeria, police said on Wednesday.

Two young female suicide bombers, including one thought to be aged just 11, killed 15 people at a busy mobile phone market in Kano, northeast Nigeria, police said on Wednesday.

Kano state police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia said the girls blew up inside and at the entrance to the Farm Centre market. "Fifteen people died, not including the suicide bombers," he told AFP.