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ABUJA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian police on Friday confirmed two people were killed and five others wounded when two female suicide attackers detonated their explosive devices near a local mosque in the country's northeast region. 

Edet Okon, the spokesman for the police in the northeastern state of Borno, said the incident occurred late Thursday in Muna Dalti, a town in Jere local government area of the state. 

The two teenage suicide attackers had attempted to hit a crowd near a local mosque, which also houses an Islamic seminary in the town. They, however, quickly detonated the improvised explosives devices attached to their bodies upon sighting policemen at the entrance of the local Juma'at mosque, Okon said. 

The police spokesman said dismembered bodies of the suicide attackers and those of the dead victims were found at the explosion site. The wounded victims were also rushed to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in the state's capital. 

"The scene was immediately cordoned off by the police," Okon said, adding normalcy had since returned to the area.   The suicide attack was the second to be recorded this week, after a long hiatus in such attacks bearing the hallmark of terror group Boko Haram. 

On January 26, one person was confirmed dead when a suspected suicide bomber hit a local mosque in Gwoza, a town in Borno.