One person was seriously injured when a suicide bomber aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year's Eve attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. Witnesses and aid workers said this today. The girl approached a crowd buying noodles from a food vendor in the Customs area of the city <br/>yesterday and detonated her explosives. The girl died instantly, while one person was seriously hurt after after he was hit by shrapnel.'<br/><br/>Although no one has claimed responsibility, the attack bore the hallmark of Boko Haram Islamists who are notorious for using suicide bombers, mostly women and young girls, inattacking civilian targets. Yesterday's attack came a week after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said the jihadist group had been routed from Sambisa forest, its last stronghold in Borno state.