Two female suicide bombers have been blown apart when the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) strapped on them accidentally detonated in a Borno village.

This incident which occurred on Sunday afternoon at Auno village of Konduga local government area, a distance of about 15 kilometres from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital also got seven other persons injured.

The suicide bombers, who were believed to be on a suicide mission to Maiduguri Monday Market where they had been sent to detonate the bombs, were waiting at Auno for a commercial vehicle to convey them to their destination.

An eyewitness, Modu Bukar who revealed that the incident occurred about 2:00 pm on Sunday, narrated that the bombs scattered the bodies of the suicide bombers, while seven other
persons were injured and were rushed to Maiduguri General Hospital for treatment.

He said “The suicide bombers were said to have brought from Damaturu by one suspected Boko Haram terrorist who dropped them in Jajana and told them to take a bus to the
next town. On reaching Auno they thought it was Maiduguri and they started asking about Maiduguri Monday Market.

“We were told that their master dropped them in Jakana because he knows that it will be very difficult for them to beat security checkpoint and get entrance into Maiduguri."

A taxi driver, Mallam Mohammdu Abor who claimed he drove through Auno on Sunday afternoon, told journalists that he saw mangled bodies of the suicide bombers by the roadside.

He said the people of the town were standing at a distance from the bodies as they were apprehensive that they may still have un-detonated explosives on them.

Speaking on the matter the spokesman of youth vigilante group in Borno state, Barrister Jibrin Gunda said that he was informed about the incident but his men has intensify stop and search mission and there is no way for them (suicide bombers) to get entrance into
Maiduguri.