12-year-old female suicide bomber shot dead in Maiduguri

Following the early morning bomb blast that killed a professor and some students inside a mosque at the University of Maiduguri, another female suicide bomber has been shot dead today.
According to a release by the spokesman of the Nigerian Police Force in Maiduguri, Victor Isuku: “At
about 08:000hrs, a third suicide bomber, female, of about 12 years with IED strapped to her body, was intercepted at Bara Karaya village behind University of Maiduguri, in Muna Garage general area.“The suicide bomber was sighted by villagers who promptly alerted the military. She was gunned down, while the EOD personnel of the command secured and rendered safe her unexploded IED vest.” 24/7 Nigeria News reports.