Nigeria: 10-Year-Old Suicide Bomber Kills 5 in Damaturu

16 May 2015

Damaturu — In a renewed Boko Haram onslaught in Damaturu, a lone suicide bomber, suspected to be ten years old, killed five people and injured several others at the popular Bayan Tasha market/ motor park at exactly 11am Saturday.

According to chairman of Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, who witnessed the gory incident,  "we have security men at all the gates and everybody entering the motor park we subjected to thorough search before they enter the park.

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