Nigerian girl, 10, used in suicide bomb attack on New Year's Eve
Source: Independent UK
A female suicide bomber believed to be no more than 10 years old has seriously injured another person when she blew herself up in a New Years Eve attack in Nigeria.
The attack, which took place in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, is believed to be the work of Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, who are notorious for using female suicide bombers to target civilians.
Witnesses said the young girl was buying noodles from a stall in the Customs area of the city at around 9.30pm on Saturday when she detonated her explosives.
"The girl walked towards the crowd but she blew up before she could reach her target," Grema Usman, who lives in the area, told the AFP agency.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/girl-suicide-bomber-aged-around-ten-seriously-injures-one-person-in-new-years-eve-attack-a7504596.html
milestogo
(16,829 posts)And turning a child into a suicide bomber is the worst form of human depravity.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It's about time these monsters were stopped.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)IntraPolitico
(51 posts)Story from a week ago - Failed suicide bomber was lynched in Nigeria:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/27/irate-nigerians-lynch-failed-boko-haram-female-suicide-bomber/
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Sunriser13
(612 posts)No ten-year-old has the capacity to fully know enough to commit to this sort of act - but children have become pawns and tools for cowards without the balls to do the deed themselves.
for the little girl...
riversedge
(70,311 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)They even booby trap childrens toys as well.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Something like 1 in 5 of their terrorist attacks are committed by children, usually girls.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)but they still have to be brood mares so they get more soldiers. I wonder if they have so much disdain for women that's why they use girls since they don't deem women important.
That poor child left to wander and be murdered. Barbarians.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)And for the child, only sorrow: