Four Teenage Suicide Bombers Attack Maiduguri, Six killed, 16 Injured

Four teenage girls who were members of Boko Haram detonated explosives worn around their bodies at a place called Muna garage, the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital early hours of today.

Now fewer than six people were reportedly killed, while about 16 person were injured in the suicide bombing.

The suicide bombers denoted their explosives around 1.15am, causing sleeping residents to jump out of their beds in fear of yet another horrific attack by Boko Haram.

The security agencies are yet to provide details of what actually happened, even as the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, said the explosions were caused by four teenage suicide bombers who attacked a location in Maiduguri, called Muna garage.

Muna garage had been repeatedly attacked by suicide bomber in the past six months.

The spokesperson of NEMA, Sani Datti, said in a statement that “four female teenage suicide bombers killed two other men (6 people dead) when they detonated explosives at Usmanti along muna Garage road at about 1.15 a.m.

About 16 people who got injured were administered with first aid by rescue workers before being transported to the state specialist hospital and university teaching hospital in Maiduguri Borno state.”