Police spokesman, Victor Isuku, told reporters that the insurgents attempted to infiltrate Maiduguri township but they were sighted by vigilant security personnel deployed on patrol who accosted them.
“Apparently startled by the presence of the security patrol team, and in order to avoid arrest, one of the bombers hurriedly detonated her IED vest killing herself and her partner in a nearby farmland close to NDLEA checkpoint along Maiduguri /Mafa highway, outskirt of Maiduguri township,” said Victor a DSP of police.
The Police patrol/EOD teams were mobilised to sanitise the scene /vicinity and render the unexploded IED vest of the second bomber detonated.
Since January of this year, several kid suicides have come through the Muna garage axis which leads to Mafa, Dikwa Gamboru Ngala local government areas of the state.
and then