What could have been a major disaster was averted Sunday in troubled Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, Northeast Nigeria as a vehicle conveying four suspected suicide bombers heading for the town accidentally exploded before it could reach its destination.
Though the departure point of the vehicle could not be ascertained last night, all that was revealed was that it was eight kilometres away from Maiduguri before it suddenly exploded and went up in flames killing all the four occupants suspected to be suicide bombers on a mission to Maiduguri.
It was gathered that the explosion occurred on the highway around Njimtilo, and apart from the four persons in the Volkswagen Golf car headed for Maiduguri from “God knows where” there was no other casualty.
Confirming the attack to our correspondent in a text message, the information officer of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the Northeast, Mallam AbdulKadir Ibrahim said “there was aborted suicide bomb attack at Njimtilo today 25 October, 2015.
“The four suicide bombers came in a car (golf) around some minutes past 1:20pm. The car presumably exploded before they reached their target.
“All the four suicide bombers on board died. No innocent soul loss. No casualty recorded. Their remains is deposited in the mortuary at Borno State Specialist Hospital.”
