Nigerian girl says parents volunteered her as suicide bomber
December 29, 2014
Police said the girl’s story made it clear who was to blame for the attacks in Kano[/caption]
A 13-year-old Nigerian girl has told how her parents gave her to Boko Haram militants to be used as a suicide bomber.
The girl, speaking at a news conference organised by police, said she was taken to the city of Kano where two other girls detonated their bombs. At least four people died in the 10 December attack. The girl was arrested, still wearing explosives, police said. About 2,000 people have died in attacks blamed on the Islamists this year. The girl told journalists that her parents had taken her to militants hiding in a forest near the town of Gidan Zana in northern Kano state. She said one of the leaders asked her if she knew what a suicide bombing was. “They said, ‘Can you do it?’ I said ‘no’,” she said. “They said, ‘You will go to heaven if you do it.’ I said ‘No I can’t.’ They said they would shoot me or throw me into a dungeon.” The girl said she finally agreed to take part in the attack but “never had any intention of doing it”. [caption id="attachment_15045" align="alignleft" width="300"]
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