Eight people were killed and fifteen others wounded on Monday when a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a mosque in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria in yet another terror attack.
Head of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Ahmed Satomi told AFP that the blast happened at about 5:30 am in the London Ciki area of the city.
“She killed eight people and injured 15 others. The mosque was being guarded by civilian JTF (joint task force militia) during prayers,” he said.
“Unknown to them, the girl was being pursued from another part of town by residents who were suspicious of her movement at the time.
“When she approached the mosque, they demanded that she stop to be searched but she suddenly bolted into the mosque and set off her bombs.”
Boko Haram has been using women and girls as human bombs to unleash terror on Maiduguri in persistent attacks in recent months.
Mosques, markets, refugee camps have been regularly targeted.
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