The Commissioner of Police in Borno State, Damian Chukwu has disclosed on Monday that a 7years-old boy was among those suicide bombers who attacked University of Maiduguri.
It was learnt that a police officer who happened to be on duty that night sited a suicide bomber who was about to scale the fence and he raised an alarm.
“At about 5:45 a.m. a mobile police officer who is on duty sighted a suicide bomber who was trying to scale the fence at Gate Five of the university.
“Suspicious of his movement, the mobile police officer instantly gunned him down and his bomb exploded and killed him instantly.
He further stated that the second suicide bomber, a 7 years old boy detonated the second explosive at the senior staff quarters mosque which claimed the lives of a professor, Aliyu Usman Mani, a Director of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Maiduguri and four persons while 15 people were injured.
