However, the militant group has not claimed the responsibility of the attack.
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The Boko Haram terrorists had also burnt down homes after loading their vehicles with food items looted from the farming community. Some 250 have been killed since the beginning of June.
“It was a suicide attack by a girl of around 12 years”, said the witness.
A second teen wearing a bomb ran away and was the only person killed when the explosive device detonated.
“Wearing the burqa must stop immediately from today,” Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet told religious leaders on Wednesday, after the twin bombings left 33 people dead and more than 100 others injured in the capital N’Djamena. “Those that were close to the scene said they spotted the female teenager running before she blew herself up, near BEWAC complex along Baga road”, Idi said.
Security analysts studying the phenomenon have suggested that younger girls may have their explosives detonated remotely by a third party. “But thank God no one except herself was killed”.
The blast comes a day after two girls carried out twin suicide bombings in another town in the region, Maiduguri, killing 32 people.
However, the Boko Haram Islamist group is the key suspect, as it is known for carrying out suicide bomb attacks in the city.
Boko Haram has kidnapped hundreds of girls and women, and the numbers of female suicide bombers has raised fears that it is using the captives in its campaign.
His spokesman Femi Adesina said Cameroon’s president had made assurances of “brotherly commitment” to working with Nigeria to end the insurgency.
For instance, at Debiro in Hawul Local Government Area of Borno State, a fleeing resident who didn’t want his name in print, told THISDAY on phone in Maiduguri yesterday that members of the Boko Haram sect stormed the village on Monday on motorcycles and utilities vehicles and shot sporadically.
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