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How dog saved many at wedding party by attacking, dying with suicide bomber
A fierce dog in Maiduguri, Borno State, northeast of Nigeria has paid the supreme prize and saved the lives of several people at a wedding after it attacked and stop a female teenage suicide bomber from detonating her explosive in the crowd.
Report by the police said the dog was owned by a resident of the area where the wedding took place.
The dog it was learnt, on sighting the suicide bomber who was just steps away from entering the wedding ceremony arena, pounced and attacked the teenage suicide bomber.
The suicide bomber realising that the fierce dog was determined to stop her and even tear her apart and reportedly detonated her explosive, killing the dog and herself instantly.
Confirming the report, spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force in Borno State, Victor Isuku, a deputy superintendent of police, explained that the incident took place at about 7:30am in Belbelo community of Jere Local Government Area in Borno State.
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He said, “Information just received indicate that today at about 0733hours (7.33am), a female suicide bomber with IED strapped to her body, attempted to infiltrate a wedding ceremony gathering in Belbelo community of Jere LGA.
“She was however prevented by a watch dog, so she had to detonate the IED to kill herself and the dog. The dog was owned by a resident in the locality.”
The police spokesperson added that normalcy has since been restored in the area and that no person except the suicide bomber and the dog died in the incident.
The Boko Haram terrorists group, which have killed about 100,000 people in the North, especially in the northeast since 2009, has recently resorted to the use of teenagers, especially female suicide bombers to carry out its deadly act.
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