Suspected Female Suicide Bomber Arrested With Bomb In Food Flask In Maidugiri Hospital

Security agents arrested a suspected female suicide
bomber who concealed an Improvised Explosive
Device (IED) in a food flask she was carrying to blow
up the General Shuwa Memorial Hospital, Maiduguri
yesterday, Guardian reports.
The suspected suicide bomber who is fairly old, was
confronted by the hospital’s security guards at the gate.
She disguised as a relation of a female patient who had
come to present food at the maternity ward. But when
she was stopped at the gate to open the two food flasks
she was carrying, she refused to open one of the flasks.

One of the hospital’s security guards told journalists that:
“When she was asked to open the other flask, she
refused, swearing that she will not open it. Our
security guards have to call the soldiers at a military
post to ascertain whether or not the flask contains any
explosive. Three minutes after, the bomb detector
beeped for some seconds, indicating the presence of
an explosive device, and the old woman was
immediately whisked way by the military personnel to
an unknown destination for further interrogation and
investigation.”
He said when the woman was asked about where she
stays, she told them that: “I am an old woman from
Chibok town, and I wanted to deliver food to one of
my relations admitted here in this hospital.”

It will be recalled that a youth vigilante group in
Borno recently revealed that there are 52 female
suicide bombers on the prowl in Maiduguri.