{"id":24173,"date":"2016-03-27T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/would-be-bomber-was-one-of-chibok-girls-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2016-03-27T00:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T00:49:05","slug":"would-be-bomber-was-one-of-chibok-girls-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/would-be-bomber-was-one-of-chibok-girls-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Would-be bomber was one of Chibok girls, Cameroon says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A would-be suicide bomber arrested in northern Cameroon wearing an explosives belt told investigators that she was one of the 219 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, a regional official told journalists on Saturday.}<\/p>\n<p>The young woman was one of two would-be bombers who were arrested in Cameroon\u2019s Far North on Friday, each of whom was wearing a belt packed with 12 kilogrammes of explosives, regional governor Midjiyawa Bakari said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo suicide bombers were arrested by members of Limani\u2019s vigilance committee,\u201d he said of a town close to the Nigerian border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach of them was carrying 12 kilogrammes of explosives&#8230;and was looking for somewhere to blow themselves up during the Easter weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During questioning, one woman said she was one of the girls kidnapped from Chibok in Nigeria, but we are treating this statement with caution\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the matter would be clarified later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch would-be attackers are often drugged and can say anything,\u201d Governor Bakari added. <\/p>\n<p>The two were taken for questioning by the Cameroonian contingent of the five-nation military force set up to fight Boko Haram that also includes Nigeria, Benin, Chad and Niger.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2014 as they were preparing for the end-of-year examinations in the remote northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok.<\/p>\n<p>The mass kidnapping sparked international  outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-seven girls escaped within hours of the attack, but there has been no news about the remaining 219 still in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram has carried out suicide bombings, often using female bombers and girls as part of its more than six-year armed campaign to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The violence has claimed 17,000 lives and displaced more than 2.6 million people in Nigeria, Chad and northern Cameroon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11186 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cameroon-2.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers patrol a street in Niamey during the funeral of an army chief killed by Boko Haram. 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