Admin l Wednesday, January 25, 2017
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Not less than three people have been killed and several others injured in two bomb attacks by terrorists in Maiduguri.
One of the suicide bomber according to sources died with a member of a civilian Joint Task Force who attempted to stop her. Another bomber, a male this time around, advancing towards a military checkpoint was killed the military, but his bomb exploded.
“We heard the first explosion about some few minutes after midnight but soldiers were able to stop him from carrying out his attack when they shot him near the security check post in Usmanti. His bombs went off not quite 50 meters away from the sandbags at the check post as soon as the soldier sitting on top of a security observation post shot at him.
“The second one was a young girl who was trying to attack worshippers in a mosque during the early morning prayer time at about 5.30am. Some of our boys tried to stop her so she decided to detonate the bomb, which killed her and one of our members. Two others were injured by the explosion as well”, Bello told Premium Times.
