The Borno Police Command said on Saturday that two suspected female suicide bombers died when one them detonated the Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) strapped on her body.
The police said worshippers at Juddumari mosque in Maiduguri noticed the suspects and stopped them from attacking the worshippers in the mosque during the early morning prayer.
The spokesman of the state police command, Mr. Victor Isuku, stated these in a statement in Maiduguri.
He said, “At about 5:20a.m. on Saturday, two suspected female suicide bombers with IEDs strapped to their bodies attempted to enter a mosque at Juddumari village, after Federal High court, Maiduguri.
”They were intercepted and prevented by the worshippers and in the process, one of them detonated her IED, killing both of them and injuring five others.
”The injured were rushed to a specialist hospital, while the remains of the suicide bombers had been evacuated by the officials of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA).
The Information Officer of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the North East, Malam Abduldulkadir Ibrahim, confirmed that the agency response team helped in evacuating the bodies.
”Following an explosion around a mosque close to Federal High Court Jiddari, the emergency response teams have evacuated the bodies of two female suicide bombers believed to have died in the incident,” Ibrahim stated.
He said the injured victims were administered with first aid and taken to hospitals thereafter.
Source – NAN
