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Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 82 people in two bombings in Kaduna state. The first attack was carried out by a suicide bomber reportedly targeting the convoy of Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, who had just given a Ramadan lecture. The body of a crew member of a helicopter that crashed in Borno state is missing. Pirates trying to steal a gunboat from an oil rig in Bayelsa state clashed with police; some of the attackers were said to have been killed.