Boko Haram Explodes Several Bombs In Less Than 24 Hours, Military Task Force Defuse Bomb Carried By A 10-Year Old Boy

Sahara Reporters

10 July 2011

Boko Haram Explodes Several Bombs In Less Than 24 Hours, Military Task Force Defuse Bomb Carried By A 10-Year Old Boy

After a short lull in violent activities, Nigerian islamists group, Boko Haram,  resurfaced yesterday in Maiduguri tossing a bomb at the Joint Task Force in Kaleri, London  Chiki ward and starting a fire fight with the military men after the bomb exploded.

Early today the group also bombed a target near the College of Legal and Islamic studies in the downtown area.

Also the Governor of the state, Kashim Shettima, barely escaped a bomb attack as a 10 year old boy bearing a bomb approached his delegation where he had gone to pay a condolence visit in the AA Kotoko residential area.

Security agencies said they intercepted the 10 year old dispossesed him of the bomb and then defused it.