Cameroonian authorities are still investigating the claim of a
suspected female suicide bomber intercepted in the northern part of that
country that she is one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist
militant sect Boko Haram in the town of Chibok in Nigeria’s northeast
Borno State in 2014.
The girl, along with another suspected female suicide bomber, was
intercepted Friday before she could detonate the explosives she was
carrying.
If the girl’s claim turned out to be true, it would confirm a long
held fear by many that Boko Haram may have been using some of the Chibok
schoolgirls as suicide bombers.
The use of female suicide bombers became popular with the sect since
early last year. Cases where girls as young as 10 were used as suicide
bombers have been reported.
Boko Haram kidnapped the Chibok schoolgirls in their solitary in
April 2014 they prepared for their final exam. The abduction sparked a
global rescue operation which failed to find them.
While some of the girl’s escaped from captivity, 219 of them are
still missing. And recent efforts by the Nigerian military to find and
rescue the girls have so far not yielded a positive result.