Nigerian police thwart suicide attack in Boko Haram stronghold
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ABUJA, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Policemen stopped a female suicide bomber trying to infiltrate a security checkpoint in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, foiling a suspected attack in the stronghold of terror group Boko Haram, police said on Thursday.
The teenage bomber was blown up by the improvised explosive devices strapped to her body as she made an attempt to pass the checkpoint in Maiduguri, the largest city and capital of the northern state of Borno, late Wednesday.
Borno police chief Damian Chukwu told reporters that there was no other casualty.
Chukwu suspected the lone bomber was a Boko Haram messenger.
Boko Haram has been trying since 2009 to establish an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria, killing some 20,000 people and displacing millions of others.
The group posed enormous security, humanitarian and governance challenges in the Lake Chad basin, according to the United Nations.
Four countries caught up in the insurgency are Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. The United Nations said Boko Haram has displaced nearly 2.4 million people in the Lake Chad region. Enditem
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