Strapped with a booby-trapped vest and sent by Boko Haram to kill as many people as possible, the young teenage girl tore off the explosives and fled as soon as she was out of sight of her handlers.
Her two companions, however, completed their grisly mission and walked into a crowd of hundreds at Dikwa refugee camp in northeast Nigeria and blew themselves up, killing 58 people.
Later found by local self-defense forces, the girl’s tearful account is one of the first indications that at least some of the child bombers used by Boko Haram are aware that they are about to die and kill others.
“She said she was scared because she knew she would kill people, but she was also frightened of going against the instructions of the men who brought her to the camp,” said Modu Awami, a self-defense fighter who helped question the girl”.
Her story was corroborated when she led soldiers to the unexploded vest, Awami said Thursday by phone from the refugee camp, which holds 50,000 people who have fled Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising.
The girl is in custody and has given officials information about other planned bombings that has helped them increase security at the camp, Satomi Ahmed, chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, told reporters.
Awami said he had no information about how the girl came to be with Boko Haram. The extremists have kidnapped thousands of people and there are fears they may be turning their captives into weapons.
An army bomb disposal expert has told the AP that some suicide bombs are detonated remotely, so the carriers may not have control over when the bomb goes off.
Even two days later, it’s difficult to say exactly how many people died at Dikwa because there were corpses and body parts everywhere, including in the cooking pots, Awami said.
“Women, children, men and aged persons all died,” he said by telephone. “I cannot say the exact number as some cannot be counted because the bodies were all mangled.”
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Money talks! The Elegushi Royal Family has revealed plans for the establishment of a $300m new Imperial International Business City (IIBC).
The new 200 hectare city will be built on reclaimed Lagoon extension of the kingdom and will also be the first eco-friendly smart business city in Africa.
Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, the Elegushi of Ikate Kingdom laid out his vision about the city in his palace while receiving some American investors interested in the project.
For all those who desperately want to see how a premier league clash between incoming Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho and newly appointed Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola would look like, they don’t have to wait for long because the archrivals will pitch their teams against each other in a pre-season championship in China.
The British tabloid reports that while Guardiola is uncomfortable with the development, the ‘Special One’ is looking forward to it like crazy. Indeed, Guardiola wanted a change in City’s pre-season arrangements according to Daily Star UK on Thursday, but the club’s management told frankly that they would not have that because they are being paid several millions to play in the International Champions Cup. So he’s stuck with Mourinho.
While the City side of the arrangement has been concluded, Manchester United is yet to fully finalze the deal. But it is expected to, Daily Mail reports.
“Negotiations with United, who are expected to be in China for 10 days, but who must fly back from the Far East in good time for Wayne Rooney’s testimonial against Everton at Old Trafford on August 3, are close to being finalized,” the tabloid reports.
Friday’s reports say that the match between the two rival teams and tacticians will be played on either of July 29 or 30, 2016.
It should however be noted that the two coaches have met 16 times in the past with Guardiola emerging victorious seven times and Mourinho three while the remaining six games ended in stalemates.
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