Six people, including two female suicide bombers, were feared dead and nine others injured as bombs exploded close to the locally-renowned Kanti Kwari Textile Market.
Kano State Police Commissioner, Aderele Shinaba told newsmen that the incident occurred around 3:30 pm at the popular market located on Ibrahim Taiwo road. He said the hijab-clad bombers, suspected to be Boko Haram members had attempted to gain entry into the Access Bank adjacent to the market, but were halted by eagle-eyed security details attached to the bank who questioned the genuineness of their visit.
In Shinababa’s words: “They later moved away towards the market area and asked for public utility and immediately after one of them detonated the bomb concealed in her body. Shortly after the first bomb was detonated, the second went off, which instantly killed six people, including the female suicide bombers. We have also taken the dead ones, including the two female suicide bombers to the morgue,”
Secretary of the Kantin Kwari Traders Association, Abdullahi Rijiyar-Hudu who corroborated Shinababa’s earlier revelation said the women halted in front of a shop and detonated the bombs killing themselves, the owner of the shop and three others instantly.
He said: “The impact was so much that the head of the female suicide bomber was severed from her body while her remaining parts were mutilated. But she succeeded in killing six people,” he said.
