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13-year-old girl says father gave her to Boko Haram
25 Dec 2014 at 12:27hrs | Views
Kano - A 13-year-old girl says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb at a market in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city in the north.
She says she told her captors she did not want to be a suicide bomber but allowed them to strap her into a vest primed with explosives because they threatened to bury her alive.
She says she was taken to Kano's textile market where two other girls detonated their bombs. Police said four people were killed in the 10 December attack.
Police presented the girl at a news conference on Tuesday night.
Nigeria has suffered numerous bombings carried out by girls and young women.
She says she told her captors she did not want to be a suicide bomber but allowed them to strap her into a vest primed with explosives because they threatened to bury her alive.
Police presented the girl at a news conference on Tuesday night.
Nigeria has suffered numerous bombings carried out by girls and young women.
Source - AP
