Two women believed to be suicide
bombers today caused explosions and
killed two other persons while waiting by
roadside to go to Damaturu, the capital of
Yobe State.
The two women in their late 20s and
wearing long hijab seemed to have been
activated by their Boko Haram
accomplices for a major suicide bombing
operation but unforeseen circumstance
did not permit them to carry out their
heinous act.
An eyewitness, said the women came
from no where to Ngamdu village, 100km
away from Maiduguri and 35km distance
to Damaturu, where they join other would-
be travellers in waiting for a commercial
vehicle to take them to the Yobe state
capital.
According to the witness, who does not
want his name mentioned in this story, a
smart bus driver whom the women
flagged down to convey them to
Damaturu, suddenly, became suspicious
after observing how disheveled 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 who spoke to
LEADERSHIP by phone.
“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”.
The two women according to many
witnesses may have been out on a suicide
bombing mission, and didn’t mind where
they got to carry out the deadly mission.
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