Two
suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers blew themselves up near Sulemanti Mosque
in Maiduguri metropolis, Borno State, in the early hours of yesterday.
The
suspects, according to Borno State Police Command, strapped with Improvised
Explosive Devices, IEDs, targeted a mosque in Sulemanti. However, the bombs
went off, killing the two suspects during midnight Ramadan prayers.
Spokesman
of Borno Police Command, Isuku Victor, confirmed the incident yesterday in
Maiduguri, stating that “a team of Police Explosives Ordinance Department, EOD,
has been deployed to the scene this morning (yesterday) near Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot.”
A
civilian Joint Task Force member, Bukar Fantami, said the suicide bombers were
intercepted near a mosque premises, where they blew themselves up. Fantami
said: “The people in the mosque took to their heels, while we challenged the
explosives-strapped suspects on their mission to the mosque, before the
explosives exploded near the mosque, under this tree.
“It
was God that saved us. We would have been killed in the dawn suicide bombings.
One of our members was injured by a shrapnel from the explosives. A woman also
sustained a leg injury. She has been taken to a nearby clinic for treatment.”
On
how the suspected terrorists sneaked into Maiduguri, Fantami said: “Sulemanti
ward and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, quarters, south of the metropolis,
is porous with no military posts and patrols at the south flank.”
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