Whatever a guy can do, a woman can do better. We’ve heard this mantra severally. We know it by heart. Two female suicide bombers, determined to please the dreaded Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau unleashed hell yesterday, killing 60 people and nijuring over 42 after they blown up themselves at a Market, in Maiduguri.
The attack is the first in Maiduguri
since July 2 when 56 people were killed in the same market area when a car bomb
hit a group of traders and shoppers.
The state Coordinator of the
Civilian Joint Task Force (Civilian JTF), Abba Aji Kalli, said two teenage
girls dressed in full hijabs entered the busy market and detonated their
explosives.
The first girl set off her
explosives and killed about three women. When others gathered around the scene,
the second bomber screamed and blew herself up, killing about 30, he said.
“I am right here at the scene and I
have before me 11 corpses … many have been taken away by relatives, while
others are taken to the state specialists’ hospital,” Kalli stated. A Civilian
JTF member, Audu Jambawa, however, told reporters that over 60 people were
killed.
Many of the bodies and those injured
were taken to the State Specialist Hospital and the University of Maiduguri
Teaching Hospital (UMTH), all in Maiduguri.
“Over 60 people were killed; as you
know, the street is a busy business area where people gathered daily for their
business activities”, Jambawa stated. The incident, which occurred at 11:30 am,
caused pandemonium in the area as people scampered to safety.”
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