Three young girls with explosives strapped to their bodies have killed at least 23 people in northern Nigeria in the latest spate of deadly attacks to be blamed on the Islamist militants Boko Haram.
While the insurgents have used female bombers in the past — and once sent a bomber disguised as a student into a school assembly — local officials said that the girls were all thought to be aged ten, the youngest bombers of Boko Haram’s five-year insurgency.
The first attack on Saturday struck a chicken market in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, killing at least 19 people. Survivors said that the bomber was blown in two as she was frisked by vigilantes. They said it wasn’t clear if she knew what