Female Suicide Bomber Killed Bauchi's First Bank Customers

According to Vanguard, a female suicide bomber has been fingered as
the suicide bomber who walked into First Bank,Azare, yesterday
morning, at about 10 am, and bombed bank customers,killing seven and
injuring 10.

It was learnt that the suicide bomber concealed the Improvised
Explosive Device, IED, in her hijab and joined the bank customers on a
queue to make withdrawals from one of the bank's ATMs centres before
the bomb exploded.

The First Bank building where the suicide bombing took place had all
its glass windows shattered. All banks in the town have been closed
down and banking services suspended.

Another bank staff who spoke on the issue said about 20 persons died
while another said that the woman who carried out the attack had her
body cut into two even as her head was found across the road near a
suya spot, adding that a student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria,
who was in the bank to make withdrawals when the incident that killed
her occurred.

The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in Bauchi State, DSP Haruna
Mohammed, also confirmed the bank attack by a suspected Boko Haram
female suicide bomber, pointing out that seven persons died while
another 10 sustained various degrees of injuries.