It
has been revealed that a female suicide bomber before she killed
herself at a checkpoint in Borno state had made passes at a Nigerian
soldier.
Suicide bomber detonates bomb killing many people (File photo)
A female suicide bomber had cleverly approached a soldier and made
love advances on the soldier before detonating her explosive ridden
body, a security source has said.
According to The Nation, the female suicide bomber approached a
military check point at Konduga pretending to like the soldier, asking
for the soldier’s mobile number all in an attempt to get closer to the
soldier to explode.
“The female suicide bomber came and was laughing and playing
that he likes one of the soldiers, she requested for the GSM no of the
soldiers trying to get closer when the IEDs on her body exploded,” the source informed.
It was earlier reported that two soldiers were killed in the
incident which occurred at Mashimari military check point near IDP Camp
in Konduga local government area of Borno State.
But the Borno State Police Command said only the suicide bomber died in the attack with two soldiers wounded.
The police spokesman in the state DSP Victor Isuku in a brief
statement reads; “Information just received from the DPO Konduga
Division, has it that on 17/5/17 at about 1930 hrs, a female suicide
bomber, detonated IED strapped to her body at Mashimari by Military
checkpoint behind IDP camp at Konduga, killing herself only.
“While two Soldiers were reported injured as a result of the
explosion. Scene was visited by team of EOD personnel, rendered safe and
normalcy restored,” Dsp Isuku said.