No fewer than five people have been reported killed in an attack by a teenage suicide bomber on Wednesday.
The teenager’s father was also killed in the attack which was carried out at a mosque in Gamboru in Gamboru –Ngala local government area of Borno State.
He was said to have disowned his father long before the incident.
The Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Rogers Nicholas, confirmed the attack.
He also disclosed that his men also neutralised a suicide bomber at Rann, headquarters of Kala-Balge local government area.
His words. “Only 5 killed and another suicide bomber neutralized in Rann.”
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News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, gathered from a resident of Gamboru, one Lawan Abba, that six people sustained injuries in the attack.
Abba was said to have disclosed that the suicide bomber sneaked into a crowded mosque while people gathered to observe morning prayer and detonated the explosive.
He revealed that the teenage suicide bomber who hailed from Gamboru town had disowned the disowned his parents and joined the insurgents in the bush.
“He entered the mosque, blew up himself into pieces and killed 10 persons including his biological father,” he said.
Abba added that the wounded persons were referred to the clinic in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the area for treatment.
It would be recalled that about four persons were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday at Amarwa community of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred at about 2 p.m.when a male suicide bomber infiltrated the village and detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strapped to his body.
An eye witness, Bukar Fantai, told NAN that the bomber managed to sneak into the village disguising as a grain merchant.
