Twin female suicide bombers
were on Saturday morning killed
when an Improvised Explosive
Devices, IEDs strapped on their
bodies exploded near a targetted
mosque in Juddumuri village of
Polo General Area of Maiduguri,
the Borno state capital.
Also five people were confirmed
to have sustained various degree
of injuries in the attack, before
being rushed to hospital for
treatment.
Soldiers speak to people standing
away from houses burnt by Boko
Haram Islamists at Zabarmari, a
fishing and farming village near
Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, on
July 3, 2015. Several female
suicide bombers in northeast
Nigeria blew themselves up amid
panicked villagers fleeing a Boko
Haram attack, killing scores, the
army and witnesses said on July
4. The latest carnage in series of
attacks that have claimed more
than 200 lives in just three days
happened on Friday night in
Zabarmari village, 10 kilometres
(six miles) from the city of
Maiduguri, the birthplace of the
jihadist group. AFP
The mosque is a stone-throw to
the Federal High Court office
complex in Maiduguri metropolis.
Residents and eye witnesses said,
the suicide bombers who were
between the ages of 10 and 13
were brought to the scene at
about 5:10am in an unidentified
Volkswagen Golf, and
immediately when alighted from
the vehicle, they headed straight
towards the mosque, before a
good samaritan who sighted
them raised an alarm.
The alarm it was gathered
frieghtened the suicide bombers
who incidentally detonated their
IEDs, which killed only the suicide
bombers with five other injured.
Confirming the incident, the Police
Public Relations Officer, PPRO,
Victor Isuku in a statement said,
‘At about 0520hrs, today, two
female suicide bombers with IED
strapped to their bodies
attempted to enter a mosque at
juddumuri village, after federal
high court.
“They were intercepted and
prevented by the moslem
worshippers. In the process, one
of them detonated her vest,
killing both of them and injuring
five others. The injured were
rushed to specialist hospital,
while the remains of the suicide
bombers were equally evacuated
by officials of State Emergency
Management Agency, SEMA


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