Security forces have arrested a 10 Years old girl strapped with high
calibre explosives in Katsina State, Coordinator of the National
Information Center, Mr. Mike Omeri has said.
Omeri in a statement said security forces stopped a car in Kastina state
today and arrested three suspected Boko Haram terrorists.
According to him, those arrested included a male and tow girls, aged 18
and 10. He said the two attempted to escape.
The “10-year-old … was discovered to have been strapped with an explosive
belt,” he said.
The chilling trend of deploying young women and girls as bombers comes
three-and-half months after Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls
from the remote town of Chibok in the northeast.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau boasted about the mass abductions in a
video during which he threatened to sell the girls as slaves.
The Chibok abductions prompted a social media campaign that went viral and
drew unprecedented global attention to Boko Haram’s extremist uprising,
which the group says is aimed at creating a strict Islamic state in the
mainly Muslim north.