Two underage suicide bombers arrested in Yola while attempting to sell bomb

Two underage boys, suspected to be suicide bombers, have been arrested in Yola for attempting to sell an explosive device given to them by two men, the police have said.

The boys were said to have been given the device to take to Bauchare, a suburb of Yola.
The boys, aged 9 and 11, were reportedly arrested after they attempted to sell the Improvised Explosive Device, IED, before it exploded injuring one of the suicide bombers.

The incident occurred opposite the Federal Road Safety Corp office, along Numan road, Yola.

According to an eye witness, who works in a filling station close to the scene of the explosion, “The two bombers are little boys. I saw when they took the explosives to one baba that buys scraps and the baba said he is not going to buy because it was small, they left.

“I was standing here in this fuel filling station when those boys left the baba but just as they got to the road, there was an explosion. One of them was injured and they started running.”
The Commander of the Adamawa State Road Safety Corp, Luka Ikpi, confirmed the incident. He said: “When I heard the noise, I rushed out but I was told it was tyre that got burst. But the sound I heard was not that of tyre. So I asked my officer in charge of intelligence to find out.

“It was when he came back that he confirmed my fears, and told me that two little boys have been apprehended. I then arrested them and handed over them to the police,” Mr. Ikpi said.

Also the police bomb section confirmed the explosion, adding that the two boys were in their custody and more arrests have been made following information from the suspected suicide bombers.

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