bombers shot dead in Adamawa

January 04, 2017

Three female suicide bombers were on Wednesday shot dead in Bakin Dutse, Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State, officials have said. The officials said the three girls

were on a mission to carry out suicide bombings at a crowded market in Gulak, before they were shot by soldiers and local vigilante.
The three women were intercepted at Bakin Dutse Village, five kilometers from Gulak, the administrative
headquarters of Madagali
Local Government Area where villagers converge in their hundreds every
Wednesday for the market day.
Badare Akintoye, the Army
Public Relations Officer at the 28 Task Force Battalion in Mubi, confirmed the
incident.
“We gunned down three female suicide bombers. Our soldiers are on alert and
commercial activities are going on there,” the army major stated. The chairman of Madagali Local Government Area, Yusuf Gulak, provided more details in a telephone
interview.
“Our local vigilantes that are now assisting the soldiers saw the three female suicide bombers who were on a
mission to strike in the market.
“On seeing them fast approaching, they asked them to stop but the girls declined instead running faster, so one
was instantly gunned down and the bomb on her body exploded. So also the second girl.
“The third girl attempted to run but
could not succeed as she was also shot
dead.”
Mr. Gulak called for the deployment of
more troops in the area.
Wednesday’s incident is coming few
hours after soldiers repelled an early
morning attack on Tuesday by Boko
Haram insurgents on Dar village in
Madagali.
Last December, two female suicide
bombers killed over 50 people at a local
market in Madagali.
Suicide bomb attacks, mainly on soft
targets like markets, is one of the major
forms of attack by Boko Haram
insurgents whose activities since 2009
have caused the death of at least 20,000
people.
The Nigerian military recently achieved
a major feat against the insurgents by
taking control of the Sambisa forest,
formerly a bastion of the Boko Haram.