Zahra’u Babangida: the Kano female bomber. She was 14 years old

The suicide bomber sent by Boko Haram to kill people in Potiskum today looked as young as seven years old, witnesses said.

It was the first time the bloody insurgents would pick a child so young on a mission of death. Most young girls used before were aged above 10 years.

The ‘baby’ suicide bomber Sunday blew herself up today and five others when the explosive devices strapped to her body detonated in the GSM market in Potiskum, Yobe State.

Nineteen others who sustained various degrees of injury were taken to hospital after the blast, a local vigilante leader told AFP.

Boko Haram child soldiers learning to aim guns

Deploying a seven year old on a suicide mission, may signal that the insurgents are lacking in the ‘manpower’ for dangerous assignments.

The insurgents recently published photographs of boys being trained to handle AK 47 guns.