Female Suicide Bomber Nabbed In Maidugiri
Security agents arrested a suspected female suicide bomber who
concealed an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in a food flask she was
carrying to blow up the General Shuwa Memorial Hospital, Maiduguri
yesterday, Guardian reports.
The suspected suicide bomber who is fairly old, was confronted by
the hospital's security guards at the gate. She disguised as a
relation of a female patient who had come to present food at the
maternity ward. But when she was stopped at the gate to open the two
food flasks she was carrying, she refused to open one of the flasks.
One of the hospital's security guards told journalists that:"When she
was asked to open the other flask, she refused, swearing that she will
not open it. Our security guards have to call the soldiers at a
military post to ascertain whether or not the flask contains any
explosive. Three minutes after, the bomb detector beeped for some
seconds, indicating the presence of an explosive device, and the old
woman was immediately whisked way by the military personnel to an
unknown destination for further interrogation and investigation."
He said when the woman was asked about where she stays, she told them
that:"I am an old woman from Chibok town, and I wanted to deliver food
to one of my relations admitted here in this hospital."
It will be recalled that a youth vigilante group in Borno recently
revealed that there are 52 female suicide bombers on the prowl in
Maiduguri.
concealed an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in a food flask she was
carrying to blow up the General Shuwa Memorial Hospital, Maiduguri
yesterday, Guardian reports.
The suspected suicide bomber who is fairly old, was confronted by
the hospital's security guards at the gate. She disguised as a
relation of a female patient who had come to present food at the
maternity ward. But when she was stopped at the gate to open the two
food flasks she was carrying, she refused to open one of the flasks.
One of the hospital's security guards told journalists that:"When she
was asked to open the other flask, she refused, swearing that she will
not open it. Our security guards have to call the soldiers at a
military post to ascertain whether or not the flask contains any
explosive. Three minutes after, the bomb detector beeped for some
seconds, indicating the presence of an explosive device, and the old
woman was immediately whisked way by the military personnel to an
unknown destination for further interrogation and investigation."
He said when the woman was asked about where she stays, she told them
that:"I am an old woman from Chibok town, and I wanted to deliver food
to one of my relations admitted here in this hospital."
It will be recalled that a youth vigilante group in Borno recently
revealed that there are 52 female suicide bombers on the prowl in
Maiduguri.
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