Child Suicide Bomber Kills Four in Nigeria

A young girl in northeastern Nigeria blew herself up at a security checkpoint near a bustling open air market Sunday, killing four others and seriously wounding 46.

Hospital records show the girl was likely no more than 10 years old.

There's been no claim of responsibility for the attack, but Boko Haram has been using young girls as suicide bombers.

Just last week, a 16-year-old girl blew herself up in a bus station in the same region.

Meanwhile on Friday, a senior Nigerian government official publically thanked Israel for its support in fighting the Islamic terror group.

"Israel has been a crucial and loyal ally in our fight against Boko Haram," Mike Omeri, the spokesman responsible for coordinating Nigeria's National Information Center, told The Jerusalem Post.

"It is a sad reality that Israel has had a great deal of experience confronting terrorism," Omeri said. "Our Israeli partners have used that experience and the unique expertise gained over years of fighting terror within its own borders, to assist us."

Diplomatic ties between the two countries have expanded under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan. Last year, Israel helped the Nigerian government in its efforts to locate 300 girls abducted by the terror group.

Nigeria also abstained on a U.N. Security Council vote submitted by the Palestinian Authority calling for the unilateral establishment of its state and an Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines within two years.