A 13-year-old girl told a news conference Wednesday night that she was taken to Boko haram's camp in Bauchi and forced to become a suicide bomber. She said that she saw many people
being buried alive at the Boko Haram camp where her father took her in
Bauchi state, east of Kano. After her captors asked if she wanted to go to paradise and she said yes, they told her she would have to be a suicide bomber. In her words, she said: "When
I was told I would have to die to enter paradise, that I would have to
explode a bomb and die, I said I cannot do it." And after they threatened to kill her, she allowed them to strap her into a vest
primed with explosives, because in her words "I was afraid to be buried alive."
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| Suicide vest she was strapped in |
Police
Superintendent Adenrele Shinaba said the girl was arrested in the
hospital with a leg wound. A taxi driver took her to the hospital, and
she said she left her suicide vest on the seat. The driver alerted
police. Shinaba said she will
remain in custody while investigations continue. Her father has not been found yet.
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