Bauchi - Witnesses and police say a crowd at a northeastern Nigerian market beat to death a teenage girl accused of being a suicide bomber and then set her body ablaze.
Police said a second suspect, also a teenage girl, has been arrested at the biggest market in Bauchi city on Sunday.
A spate of such attacks has been blamed on Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram Islamic extremist group, which wants to enforce strict Islamic law across Nigeria.
Vendor Mohd Adamu said the two girls refused to be searched at the gate to the vegetable market, arousing suspicion from people who attacked them.
Police Deputy Superintendent Mohammad Haruna said it seemed doubtful the girl was a bomber and described her as the victim of “mob action carried out by an irate crowd”.
Sapa-AP