The Nigerian police in Damaturu, Yobe state said a 10 year-old-girl was the suicide bomber used by Boko Haram to kill no fewer than 15 people in a crowded market in the town today.
“a female suicide bomber, aged about 10 years, detonated the explosive device at a crowded main entrance of the popular Sunday Market, killing 15 people, including 10 females and five males, while injuring 47 others,” said Toyin Gbadegesin, the police public relations officer.
Gbadegeshin, who made the confirmation to newsmen in Damaturu, said that the bomber detonated the explosive device at the gate of the market.
He said five other units of undetonated explosives were recovered at the scene of the explosion.
The police spokesman said that suicide bombers used mortars similar to those recovered from suspected bombers on the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway on Monday.
Three policemen and five suicide bombers were killed in the Monday incident.
Gbadegeshin urged the public to be cautious and remain observant of suspected persons, bags and movements around their environments.
Twenty three people were killed in two separate suicide bomb attacks in Damaturu in the last one week.