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Two underage suspected suicide bombers arrested

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Fatimah Abdullahi
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Two underage boys, suspected to be suicide bombers, have been arrested in Yola while attempting to sell an explosive device.
Police bomb unit in Yola who confirmed the arrest revealed that the boys, aged between 9 and 11 were arrested after their attempt to sell an Improvised Explosive Device, IED was failed.
The explosives, said to have been given to the teenagers to take to Bauchare, a suburb of Yola,  police added exploded and injured  the duo.
 The incident, which occurred opposite the Federal Road Safety Corp office, along Numan road, Yola was also confirmed by the Commander of the Adamawa State Road Safety Corp, Luka Ikpi.
Confirm the incident, Ikpi said,  “When I heard the noise, I rushed out but I was told it was tyre that got burst. But the sound I heard was not that of tyre. So I asked my officer in charge of intelligence to find out.
 “It was when he came back that he confirmed my fears, and told me that two little boys have been apprehended. I then arrested them and handed them over  to the police”. 
The police said the two boys were in their custody and that more arrests have been made following confessional statement from the suspected suicide bombers.

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