Three men dressed as female suicide bombers
riding on a tricycle Thursday evening killed unspecified number of people and injured several
others at Sajeri area of Maiduguri, the capital of
Borno state which has been the hotbed of Boko
Haram's insurgency.

One of the suicide bombers alighted from the
tricycle and ran into a mosque with explosives
strapped to his body.
He detonated his bomb, killing many in the process.

When the sympathiser gathered at the scene, the
second bomber detonated his exploisive among
them.
However, the third one was not lucky as the people broke his legs before he could detonate it.
After breaking his legs, people kept a safe distance away from him while he could not detonate his bomb.

Daily Trust reports that when security operatives
got to the scene, they were able identify the suicide bombers as men dressed in female clothes.

Boko Haram has resorted to targeting civilian
population after its fighers were dislodged from
areas they occupied in Nigerian territory..