How 2 Teenage Girls in Hijab Kill More Than 40 People Using Explosive Devices in Maiduguri
Category: Boko Haram News
According to an Associated Press report, the teenage girls entered the busy marketplace separately Tuesday, their vests of explosives hidden beneath their full hijabs.
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| A victim of a suicide bomb attack at a market receives treatment at a specialist hospital in Maiduguri |
The first detonated her bomb,
killing three women. As rescuers rushed in, the second girl screamed and
set off her explosives, killing dozens more, according to witnesses and
authorities.
More than 40
people died in the double suicide bombing in Maiduguri, a provincial
capital in northeastern Nigeria, according to Haruna Issa, a hospital
volunteer in the city.
It was not known if Tuesday's
attackers were connected with the April abduction. Recall that over 200 school girls were abducted by the deadly Islamist sect in April. A worker with a
nongovernmental organization said young women in northern Nigeria are
especially vulnerable to recruitment by the extremist group. The worker
spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety.
The
coordinated bombings by the two girls dressed in full hijabs took place
as the marketplace was crowded with shoppers, said Abba Aji Kalli, the
coordinator of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Borno state.
The
first girl set off her explosives, while the second apparently waited
until the rescuers rushed in to help before detonating her bomb, killing
another 30 people, Kalli said.
On July 2, a car bomb in the same market killed 56 people.
Maiduguri,
the largest city in Borno state and the birthplace of Boko Haram five
years ago, is home to a Nigerian military headquarters. So far, the
government troops have been unable to halt the bloodshed in the city and
surrounding areas.
Borno is one of the three states in northeastern Nigeria that are under a state of emergency because of the extremist violence.
In a new strategy, Boko Haram is seeking to form a caliphate, mimicking the Islamic State group.
Boko
Haram still holds many centers in an area covering an estimated 20,000
square kilometers (7,700 square miles) and has said it is imposing a
strict version of Shariah law. The insurgents want to impose Islamic
rule over all Nigeria, whose 170 million people are about evenly divided
between Christians and Muslims.
Source: Yahoo News
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