(File copy of a female suicide bomber arrested in Kano last year)
By Danlami Nmodu
Reports from Potiskum in Yobe State ,north east Nigeria said two bomb explosions hit the market on Sunday.
Mallam Sani Abdu ,a trader in Potiskum Market told Reuters the bombs were detonated by two ten year- old girls.
“I saw their dead bodies. They are two young girls of about 10 years of age … you only see the plaited hair and part of the upper torso,” he said.
Though no official casualty figure was available,a source at the Potiskum general hospital told Reuters three people were killed as well as the suicide bombers and 46 others were injured.
The bomb explosions came a day after the military announced that it had stabilized the situation in Damaturu , the state capital.Boko Haram insurgents who attempted to occupy the state capital were repelled the military said.Five soldiers were seriously injured in the Damaturu operation.
The use of child female suicide bombers is becoming a worrying phenomenon to local and international observers of the growing insurgency in Nigeria.
On Saturday, a 10-year old female suicide bomber attacked a market in Maiduguri,the Borno State capital.Maiduguri market had also been hit by bomb attacks carried out by two female bombers same day last year.
Female suicide bomb attacks also took place in Kano and Gombe, all in the northern part of Nigeria last year.
A foreign envoy asked on Sunday:what is it that motivates these girls? The envoy who was addressing Nigerian journalists challenged them to dig deeper to unravel the mystery behind the rising wave of child female suicide bombers.
It could be recalled that a 13 year old female suicide bomber,one of those sent to attack Kantin –Kwari Market in Kano said late last year, it was her father that made her a suicide bomber.She failed to denonate her bomb after seeing what happed to her colleagues sent along with her .She was later apprehended by law enforcement officers in Kano.
