Female Suicide Bomber Kills 6 In Maiduguri
By tatafoboi on July 31, 2015
“We took seven dead bodies, including that of the female bomber, to the hospital. Eight other people were injured and are now receiving treatment in a hospital,” Babakura Kolo, a vigilante in the northeastern town, told AFP.
The blast was the latest in a wave of attacks on busy markets — many by teenage girls — in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, which claimed at least 130 lives and left scores injured this month.
“The attack (on the Gamboru) market happened around 6:30 am (0530 GMT) as the grocers were arriving in the market which starts early,” according to Kolo, who became a vigilante to help the Nigerian army combat Boko Haram.
“From accounts we gathered from people around, the woman arrived on a taxi tricycle, as every woman grocer does. She blew herself up as soon as the tricycle stopped in the midst of other tricycles dropping traders off,” Kolo said.
“I was at home when I heard a loud explosion that sent me rushing out of my house. It was coming from the Gamboru market… The place was littered with victims and burning rickshaws,” a local resident told AFP.
Gamboru market is the second largest in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and birthplace of Boko Haram, which has killed at least 15,000 people since its bloody insurgency began in 2009.
The Maiduguri attack follows a visit this week by Buhari to Cameroon to discuss a stronger regional alliance against the Islamists in the wake of an unprecedented wave of five suicide bombings there
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