Female Suicide Bomber Nabbed In Maidugiri

Security agents arrested a suspected female suicide bomber who concealed an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in a food flask she was carrying to blow up the General Shuwa Memorial Hospital, Maiduguri yesterday, Guardian reports. 

The suspected suicide bomber who is  fairly old, was confronted  by the hospital’s security guards at the gate. She disguised as a relation of a female patient who had come to present food at the maternity ward. But when she was stopped at the gate to open the two food flasks she was carrying, she refused to open one of the flasks.
One of the hospital’s security guards told journalists that: “When she was asked to open the other flask, she refused, swearing that she will not open it. Our security guards have to call the soldiers at a military post to ascertain whether or not the flask contains any explosive. Three minutes after, the bomb detector beeped for some seconds, indicating the presence of an explosive device, and the old woman was immediately whisked way by the military personnel to an unknown destination for further interrogation and investigation.” 
He said when the woman was asked about where she stays, she told them that: “I am an old woman from Chibok town, and I wanted to deliver food to one of my relations admitted here in this hospital.” 
It will be recalled that a youth vigilante group in Borno recently revealed that there are 52 female suicide bombers on the prowl in Maiduguri.

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