BREAKING: Suicide Bombers Attack Borno Again

 Less than 24 hours after suicide bombers in two separate attacks struck a mosque in Maiduguri and a new central mosque in Yola, three female suicide bombers have attacked two communities in Borno, on Saturday, October 24.


The incidents happened in Dala and Yazare, suburbs located some 4km away from Maiduguri, along the Biu-Maiduguri road.

According to Premium Times, the two female suicide bombers found their way into a crowded suburb of the troubled city with one of them succeeding in blowing herself up while the second was arrested and disarmed before she could trigger the explosive belt worn under her garment, security sources said.

In the report, an operative of the Civillian-JTF said: “They were two suicide bombers; one was arrested now, but the other was able to detonate the bomb.”

As soon as the bomb blast happened, Nigerians and some other media had already taken to Twitter: