Boko Haram: Chibok Suicide Bombers Targeted Commanding Officer – Army

The Media Coordinator, Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Mustapha Anka Thursday revealed that the two female suicide bombers who detonated improvise explosives in a market at Chibok town on Wednesday were actually targeting the Commanding officer in charge of Chibok and surrounding areas.

Addressing newsmen at the Maimalari Cantonment, the Army spokesman said, the suicide bombers disguised as women and were backing babies when they were approaching the Army officer, but detonated the explosives before they could reach the Commanding Officer.

At Least 12 Killed in Suicide Blasts in North Nigeria

At least 12 people were killed on Wednesday when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok where Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 girls almost two years ago, police and residents said.

Boko Haram has been waging a six-year armed campaign in Nigeria's remote north to build an Islamic state. Thousands have been killed and more than two million people displaced by the campaign, reports Reuters.

3 YOUNG SUICIDE BOMBERS KILL 6 IN NORTHEAST

Three young suicide bombers set off explosions that killed six others and injured at least 24 people in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, a Nigerian army spokesman said Monday.

The attack Sunday in Benisheikh came as Nigeria's army launched an operation against two Boko Haram camps in the state that killed at least 12 militants, said army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman.

Three suspected suicide bombers between the ages of 10 and 15 years old were spotted by a civilian group set up to fight Boko Haram as the young bombers approached a security checkpoint late Sunday, said Usman. The checkpoint was run by a local group of residents fighting the insurgency is known as the Civilian Joint Task Force.