2 Female Suicide Bombers Kill 4 In Borno

Two women believed to be suicide bombers yesterday
caused explosions and killed two other persons while
waiting by roadside to go to Damaturu, the capital of Yobe
State.

The two women in their late 20s and wearing long hijab
seemed to have been activated by their Boko Haram
accomplices for a major suicide bombing operation but
unforeseen circumstance did not permit them to carry out
their heinous act.

An eyewitness, said the women came from no where to
Ngamdu village, 100km away from Maiduguri and 35km
distance to Damaturu, where they join other would-be
travellers in waiting for a commercial vehicle to take them
to the Yobe state capital.

According to the witness, who does not want his name
mentioned in this story, a smart bus driver whom the
women flagged down to convey them to Damaturu,
suddenly, became suspicious after observing how
disheveled they both looked and quickly declined by
pretending that he was not getting as far as Damaturu.

“Some of us were slightly suspicious when we saw them,
but we felt they may not be what we suspected them to
be”, said the witness who spoke to LEADERSHIP by phone.

“But when the driver stopped by to pick them, he later
changed his mind and said he was not going as far as
Damaturu; that he would only get to the next village about
5km ahead and then turn back to Maiduguri.

One of the women who looked desperate insisted they
should join the driver so that he could take them back to
Maiduguri so that theey could get a vehicle from there to
Damaturu because they had waited all day without getting
a vehicle, The driver declined and drove off; but we all
knew the driver was actually going to Damaturu”.

‘Minutes after the driver had left them, one of the women
tried to move a bit then we heard an explosion which
instantly killed her and her colleague as well as two other
innocent travellers who were also waiting for a bus.

Seconds later, another bomb exploded from the body of the
other woman who was with the first suicide bomber.

That was when we realised that the women were actually
on a mission to kill in Damaturu”.

The two women according to many witnesses may have
been out on a suicide bombing mission, and didn’t mind
where they got to carry out the deadly mission.

Source: Leadership