{Nigeria’s army says it thwarted three suicide bombings when soldiers killed two female suspects before they were able to attack displaced people, while a third died when her explosives detonated prematurely.}<\/p>\n
Army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman said the trio tried to attack internally displaced people collecting water at a well on the outskirts of Monguno, in Borno state.<\/p>\n
Two of the three women, who he described as “Boko Haram terrorists suicide bombers”, were shot and killed, causing their explosives to detonate, injuring two civilians.<\/p>\n
The third suspect’s explosives went off about an hour later at a nearby location, Colonel Usman said.<\/p>\n
The attempted attack came just before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is marked in Nigeria with two days’ public holiday on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n
It also follows a similar attempted suicide bombing at a mosque in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, on June 27, which saw two men try to target Ramadan night prayers at a city mosque.<\/p>\n
Both incidents underlined the threat posed by Boko Haram, which has used suicide bombers against civilian “soft targets” as part of its seven-year insurgency to create a hardline Islamic state.<\/p>\n
A military counter-offensive waged since January last year has pushed the militants out into remote border areas around Lake Chad. The rate of attacks has declined in recent months.<\/p>\n
Borno governor Kashim Shettima said “stringent security measures” will be in place at prayer grounds, where large crowds were expected.<\/p>\n
In February, two female suicide bombers made their way into an internally displaced persons camp and detonated themselves in the middle of it killing more than 60 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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