BAUCHI, Nigeria -Two teenage girls entered the
busy marketplace separately Tuesday, their vests of explosives hidden beneath
their full hijabs. The first detonated her bomb, killing three women. As
rescuers rushed in, the second girl screamed and set off her explosives,
killing dozens more, according to witnesses and authorities.
More than 40 people died in the double suicide
bombing in Maiduguri, a provincial capital in northeastern Nigeria, according
to Haruna Issa, a hospital volunteer in the city. Suspicion immediately fell on
the insurgents from the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, which controls a
large part of northeastern Nigeria and is blamed for the deaths this year of at
least 1,500 people in Africa's most populous country.
In its campaign of violence, Boko Haram has used car
bombs and men wearing vests of explosives. It also has begun using women who
can cover the explosives with their hijabs, and the recruits appear to have
gotten younger, with several instances of teenage attackers earlier this year. Source AP
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