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Two female suicide bombers detonated explosives at a market in Maiduguri city in northern Nigeria, killing at least 30 people. Boko Haram gunmen killed "scores of residents in Damasak" in Borno state; hundreds of civilians and soldiers are fleeing the city disguised as traders. Nigeria's top Muslim cleric has criticized the military for running away in the face of attacks by the terrorist group. A federal court acquitted a man suspected of being behind an April bomb attack that killed more than 70 people in Abuja.