Two Female Suicide Bombers Killed By Own Explosives In Borno

Two women apparently on a suicide bombing
mission got killed by their own devices after failing
to get a vehicle to take them to Damaturu, Yobe
state capital, eyewitnesses said.
The incident, which happened at Ngamdu village,
however, led to the death of two travelers, who
were standing in close proximity to the suspected
bombers as they waited for a bus to convey them
to Damaturu, some 35km away.
Witnesses said the two women who showed up in
Ngamdu village both looked strange.
According to one witness, who pleaded anonymity,
a discerning bus driver whom the women flagged
down to convey them to Damaturu,
suddenly, became suspicious after observing how
unkempt they both looked and quickly declined by
pretending that he was not getting as far as
Damaturu.
“Some of us were slightly suspicious when we saw
them, but we felt they may not be what we
suspected them to be”, said the witness.
He continued: “But when the driver stopped by to
pick them, he later changed his mind and said he
was not going as far as Damaturu; that he would
only get to the next village about 5km ahead and
then turn back to Maiduguri. One of the women
who looked desperate insisted they should join the
driver so that he could take them back to
Maiduguri so that theey could get a vehicle from
there to Damaturu because they had waited all day
without getting a vehicle, The driver declined and
drove off; but we all knew the driver was actually
going to Damaturu.
“Minutes after the driver had left them, one of the
women tried to move a bit then we heard an
explosion which instantly killed her and her
colleague as well as two other innocent travellers
who were also waiting for a bus. Seconds later,
another bomb exploded from the body of the other
woman who was with the first suicide bomber.
That was when we realised that the women were
actually on a mission to kill in Damaturu”.