Barely 24 hours after a suicide bomber attacked
a mosque in Maiduguri killing at least 18
worshippers, two female suicide bombers on
Saturday found their way into a crowded suburb
of the troubled city, with one of them succeeding
in blowing off her self while the second got
arrested and disarmed before she could trigger
off the explosive belt worn under her garment,
security sources and witnesses have told
PREMIUM TIMES.
The incident happened in Dala-Yazare, a suburb
located some 4km away from Maiduguri, along
the Biu-Maiduguri road.
An operative of the Civillian-JTF, who asked not
to be named, told EXPOSEDGISTS on phone
that “they were two suicide bombers, one was
arrested now, but the other was able to detonate
the bomb…”.
The source did not have much time to give
details of how the second female suicide bomber
was nabbed, neither did he give details of the
extent of damage caused by the deafening blast
that echoed over the city of Maiduguri at about
7:50am.
Details remain sketchy for now even as tension
continues to mount in Maiduguri over the spate
of suicide attacks that have now become a daily
affair.
On Friday, a lone suicide bomber rode a bicycle
into a crowded mosque, joined a congregation
already in the middle of the early morning prayer,
and seconds later touched off the massive
improvised explosives device he was carrying.
The explosive blew off the entire roof of the
mosque, bored a massive hole on the concrete
wall, and left mangled pieces of human flesh
littering the charred walls and floors of the
mosque, as though it was an abattoir.
Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, visited
the scene where he lacked words to describe the
pains he felt.
The state government has created a new
ministry for rehabilitation and reconstruction of
areas destroyed by Boko Haram terrorists with
the aim of fast-tracking the return of displaced
persons to communities liberated by troops of
the Nigeria military.
But with the current hike in the spate of attacks
by Boko Haram, lives appear to be safer in the
IDP camps than the so-liberated communities.