Monday morning was greeted with a
heavy bomb blast in London Ciki area of Maiduguri. The bomb was said to have
been detonated by a female suicide bomber suspected to have been a member of
the terrorist group, Boko Haram.
The incident according to the head
of Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Ahmed Satomi was said to have occurred
at about 5:30am and it left
eight people dead while fifteen were critically
injured.
Mr. Satomi said: “She killed eight people and injured 15
others. The mosque was being guarded by civilian JTF (joint task force militia)
during prayers.
Unknown to them, the girl was
being pursued from another part of town by residents who were suspicious of her
movement at the time.
When she approached the mosque,
they demanded that she stop to be searched but she suddenly bolted into the
mosque and set off her bombs.”
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