The Borno State
Commissioner of Police, Damian Chukwu, on Monday said a 7-year-old boy was one of the suicide bombers that
attacked University of Maiduguri in the early hours of today.
"At about 5:45 a.m. a mobile police officer who is on duty sighted a suicide
bomber who was trying to scale the fence at Gate Five of the university.
Suspicious of his movement, the mobile police officer instantly
gunned him down and his bomb exploded and killed him instantly," the CP
said.
"The second suicide bomber, a seven-year-old, detonated the
second explosive at the senior staff quarters mosque in the university where a
professor and four persons were killed and 15 persons sustained various degrees
of injuries and were rushed to the hospital," he added.
Professor Aliyu Usman Mani,
a Director of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Maiduguri was among
those killed in the attack.
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