{"id":33237,"date":"2017-03-16T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/female-suicide-bombers-kill-two-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2017-03-16T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:24:17","slug":"female-suicide-bombers-kill-two-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/female-suicide-bombers-kill-two-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Female suicide bombers kill two in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Four female suicide bombers blew themselves up near a bus station in northeastern Nigeria early Wednesday, killing two people, the country&#8217;s disaster agency said.}<\/p>\n<p>The National Emergency Management Agency said the blasts occurred at about 1:15 am in the Usmanti area on the outskirts of Maiduguri, a city which has been hit by several similar attacks in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two men were killed due to the explosion while about 16 injured people were administered first aid,&#8221; the agency&#8217;s spokesman for the northeast, Ibrahim Abdulkadir, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Usmanti is near a sprawling camp for people who have been driven from the remote countryside by Boko Haram violence and, increasingly, the need for food.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamist group has frequently used young women and girls as human bombs.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, civilian militia members assisting the military with security shot and killed two female bombers, who NEMA said were 18-years-old, as they tried to enter Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>One of the would-be bombers was pregnant, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a female bomber carrying a baby on her back used the infant as a decoy before detonating her explosives, killing several people in the neighbouring state of Adamawa.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s insurgency to create a hardline Islamic state in northeastern Nigeria has claimed at least 20,000 lives and forced about 2.6 million people to flee their homes.<\/p>\n<p>That has triggered a dire humanitarian crisis in the three northeastern states and the wider Lake Chad region, which has also been hit by the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Aid agencies have said parts of Borno are facing &#8220;famine-like&#8221; conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram, affiliated with the Islamic State group, has been severely weakened since a military offensive by Nigeria and its allies that began in early 2015. But there are still attacks on &#8220;soft&#8221; civilian targets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18782 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pix_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian women mourn near the site where four female suicide bombers blew themselves up near a bus station in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria on March 15, 2017 killing two people. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Four female suicide bombers blew themselves up near a bus station in northeastern Nigeria early Wednesday, killing two people, the country&#8217;s disaster agency said.} The National Emergency Management Agency said the blasts occurred at about 1:15 am in the Usmanti area on the outskirts of Maiduguri, a city which has been hit by several similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33237"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33237"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}