Suicide bombing in Nigeria – a 10-year-old girl suicide bomber kills five

#potiskum #bokoharam #nigeria #suicidebomber The incident took place in Potiskum in NE Nigeria where a 10-year-old girl got out of a tricycle taxi in front of the busy cell phone market in Potiskum and minutes later her explosives detonated killing the girl and four others as reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 24 February 2015. Using such young girls who do not have the faintest idea of how they are being used would lead one to presume that they have been made victims and most probably had been kidnapped.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack in which 46 people have suffered serious injuries, but experts feel that it bears he hallmarks of Boko Haram, Nigeria's homegrown extremist group.
If reports are to be believed, Boko Haram has, of late, been using teenage girls and young women for suicide bombings in marketplaces, bus stations and other busy areas. However, the girl in the Potiskum attack appeared far younger and it is not yet clear whether the bombers activate the explosions themselves, or whether they were remote controlled devices.
Potiskum is the capital of Yobe state and, last November, a suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform had set off explosives hidden in a backpack during an assembly at a high school. At least 48 students were killed in the attack and another 79 were wounded.

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48 killed and 79 injured in suicide attack in all-boys school in Nigeria

48 students were killed and 79 injured in a suicide attack on an all-boys school in Yobe district of north Nigeria – the school followed a western curriculum and the local police suspect that Boko Haram is behind this terror attack. The death toll could rise.
The suicide bomber was dressed in school uniform and detonated the bomb during morning assembly. He had gained entry through the schoolyard in Potiskum, Yobe state, before carrying out the attack among the students.
The students of the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum were waiting to hear the principal's daily address when the suicide bomber struck just before 8am. The attack happened a day after the release of a new Boko Haram video in which the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, had once again rejected the claims of the Nigerian government about a ceasefire and peace talks.
The most high profile attack by Boko Haram on a school was in April, when fighters kidnapped 276 teenage girls from the town of Chibok in Borno state, also in northeast Nigeria. Even now, over six months later, 219 of the girls are still being held prisoners.