Nigerian girl, 10, used in suicide bomb attack on New Year's Eve

[oberliner]

Source: Independent UK

A female suicide bomber believed to be no more than 10 years old has seriously injured another person when she blew herself up in a New Year’s Eve attack in Nigeria.

The attack, which took place in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, is believed to be the work of Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, who are notorious for using female suicide bombers to target civilians.

Witnesses said the young girl was buying noodles from a stall in the Customs area of the city at around 9.30pm on Saturday when she detonated her explosives.

"The girl walked towards the crowd but she blew up before she could reach her target," Grema Usman, who lives in the area, told the AFP agency.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/girl-suicide-bomber-aged-around-ten-seriously-injures-one-person-in-new-years-eve-attack-a7504596.html

[milestogo]

1. When children are turned into soldiers things have reached the absolute bottom.

And turning a child into a suicide bomber is the worst form of human depravity.

[oberliner]

2. Boko Haram has used dozens of them

It's about time these monsters were stopped.

[Sunlei]

10. the explosives come from somewhere, wonder what kind they use.

[IntraPolitico]

13. Human depravity exists in all forms

Story from a week ago - Failed suicide bomber was lynched in Nigeria:

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/27/irate-nigerians-lynch-failed-boko-haram-female-suicide-bomber/

[AgadorSparticus]

3. No words....

[Sunriser13]

4. Heartsick

No ten-year-old has the capacity to fully know enough to commit to this sort of act - but children have become pawns and tools for cowards without the balls to do the deed themselves.



for the little girl...

[riversedge]

5. So horrible.

[Rustyeye77]

6. No words.

[7962]

7. Standard procedure for Islamists. Happens everywhere that they frequent.

They even booby trap childrens toys as well.

[oberliner]

8. Boko Haram is particularly fond of this gruesome practice

Something like 1 in 5 of their terrorist attacks are committed by children, usually girls.

[Sunlei]

9. I hope she didn't know what was to happen to her.

[DK504]

11. So woman are slaves in Boko Haram

but they still have to be brood mares so they get more soldiers. I wonder if they have so much disdain for women that's why they use girls since they don't deem women important.

That poor child left to wander and be murdered. Barbarians.

[LongTomH]

12. This is one of the times when I wish I believed in a Hell for such monsters!!!!

And for the child, only sorrow: