Bomb Strapped to 10 Year Old Girl Kills 19 in Nigeria

[JI7]

At least 19 people have been killed and several injured by a bomb strapped to a girl reported to be aged about 10 in north-eastern Nigeria, police say.

The bomb exploded in a market in the city of Maiduguri, in Borno state.

"The explosive devices were wrapped around her body," a police source told Reuters.

No group has said it carried out the attack. The market is reported to have been targeted twice in a week by female bombers late last year.

The BBC's Abdulahi Kaura in Lagos says that this will not be the first suicide bombing involving young girls, part of a new militant strategy intended to capitalise on the fact that people in the Muslim-dominated north are less suspicious of women.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30761963

[Skidmore]

1. This story breaks my heart on so many levels.

I read an article on the same incident from another publication. That people could use this child in this manner to cause so much carnage is evil beyond comprehension. The report was that she was an unwitting participant and the bomb was detonated by remote control. She was not a suicide bomber. Here is an article that says the same thing but not nearly as graphic in detail as the one I read earlier.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-11/bomb-strapped-to-girl-kills-19-in-nigeria-reports/6010694

[NaturalHigh]

2. I simply can't fathom this type of evil.

[WillyT]

3. Shame On Them.. Shame On Us All...

Greed and Power...

[malaise]

4. I'd like to find the person who did that to that litle girl

[Warpy]

5. That poor little girl.

I think at ten, she knew what they were putting onto her. I can't imagine the unspeakable horror her life was before that or what threats they used to get her to walk into that market.

Mad dog killers like the ones who used this child's body as their weapon belong in cages, welded shut.

[alphafemale]

6. Child. We know you were forced.

Child...I am so sorry that happened to you.

[smirkymonkey]

7. I can't imagine the kind of hate

that would allow such a thing. That poor child. I have no words for how sad I feel.

[spanone]

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