The girl who was accompanied by a
male accomplice, walked into a clinic seeking for medical treatment.
The clinic which is just 20 kilometers
from the scene of a double suicide attacked by two women in a textile market
hours earlier raised suspicion and security forces were promptly alerted. When the girl was searched, police discovered
explosives hidden under her hijab. She
and her male accomplice were quickly whisk away for further interrogation.
”The senior security source said the
young girl was from the northeastern state of Bauchi and had been part of the
“suicide team” that attacked the busy Kantin Kwari textile bazaar. Four people were killed in that attack and
seven others injured. “Her arrest is a
huge breakthrough in unravelling the spate of suicide attacks by young girls in
the city,” the source added. Boko Haram
has increasingly used women as suicide bombers in attacks ranging from Borno
state in the far northeast to Niger to the northwest.
Just last month, at least 120 people
were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at Kano’s central
mosque and gunmen opened fire on worshippers as they fled .
Security analysts said the use of
women whether voluntarily or ideologically motivated or coerced as a way of
sowing fear in the minds of people.
In July, a 10-year-old girl was
discovered wearing a suicide vest in Katsina state, also in the north.
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