A female suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt was killed in Kano as she tried to enter a military barracks December 31.
AFP reports with reference to eyewitnesses that the soldiers opened fire on the woman wearing hijab after she had refused to be searched upon approaching the barracks in Bolari. The shots were said to have immediately detonated the explosives belt wrapped around her.
The woman died on the spot. One of the witnesses, Shuaibu Nasir, narrated:
“The woman refused to stop and continued to advance towards the military guards at the gates despite repeated orders from them to stop at a distance.
“The soldiers opened fire on the woman who quickened her pace towards them and as they fired shots at her she exploded with a loud sound that shook our buildings.”
According to another local, Ahmed Baballe, the bomber was “blown to pieces” by the impact of the explosion.
“The soldiers didn’t take chances with the woman and opened fire when she showed no sign of stopping to be searched.”
It would be recalled that Nigeria’s security have recently arrested Zaharau Babangida, a 13-year-old Kano could-be suicide bomber. The girl narrated how her own father had introduced her into insurgency and what had happened on the fateful day of the attack at Kwari market.
