Briefing journalists on Friday, the deputy commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, the counter-insurgency operation in the North-East, Brigadier General Lucky Irabor, said the three suicide bombers were intercepted while trying to get passage into Maiduguri.
He said, “The three suicide bombers, two females and a male, attempted to infiltrate Maiduguri but were intercepted by vigilant men a kilometre ahead of the town, along Mafa road.”
He added that one of the bombers on sighting the troops detonated the bomb on her, getting killed in the process alongside the other bomber.
He said, “The third one while attempting to run at the checkpoint to detonate the bomb on him, but before he could get to the soldiers was shot.”
He added that in the last one week other successes were recorded by the Nigerian troops fighting the insurgency in the North-East.
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