Maiduguri: Suicide bomb attacks leave 3 dead, vigilante foils attack on mosque
At least three persons have been confirmed dead in two separate suicide bomb attacks in Maiduguri early Wednesday morning.
A local vigilante attached to the Civilian-JTF, Danbatta Bello, told Premium Times that a teenage girl blew herself up about 5:30am after the vigilante stopped her.
She was said to be moving towards a mosque where Muslim worshippers were praying.
A member of the vigilante group died in the blast, with two others injured.
In a separate attack, security operatives reportedly shot down a male suicide bomber after he was spotted advancing towards a security check post manned by soldiers in Usmanti layout of Maiduguri.
“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,” Bello said.
“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.”
Normalcy has since returned to the area after rescue officials evacuated the victims from the sites.
Over a week ago, twin suicide bomb blasts rocked a mosque in the University of Maiduguri, killing a professor of the institution in the process.
