10 year old suicide bomber Kill 7 people in Nigeria

Atleast seven people have died and more than thirty have sustained serious injuries after a bomb exploded at a busy market in Damaturu the capital of Yobe state in Northern Nigeria. The bomb is said to have been mounted on to a 10 year old girl.

According to the chairman of Nigerian union of Road Transport Workers, who witnessed the  incident said “ we had security men at all the gates and everybody entering the motor park was being subjected to a thorough search before they enter the park. It was in the process of searching, that a little girl of about 10 years old refused to be searched and before you could blink an eye, the bomb which the girl concealed under her Hijab exploded killing her, the security staff and other”

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but it bore the hallmark of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has been fighting a six-year insurgency in a bid to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.

Boko Haram took over a territory larger than Belgium last year, killing thousands of people and displacing some 1.5 million. The militants took over most of Borno state and parts of Adamawa and Yobe.