The spokesman of the Nigeria Police Force in Borno State,
Victor Isuku,, has narrated how a dog died saving dozens of people at a wedding
party in Maiduguri after it attacked a suicide bomber.
He told newsmen in Maiduguri that the dog stopped the
teenage suicide bomber from detonating her explosives in the crowd.
According to Isuku, the dog belonged to a resident of the
neighbourhood where the wedding took place.
He said the suicide bomber was about making her way into the
gathering at the wedding ceremony before the dog pounced on her.
The girl, whose original mission appeared to have been
thwarted, detonated her explosive while battling to wriggle herself from the
canine grip of the dog
.
The gallant dog paid the supreme sacrifice as it died
alongside the suicide bomber.
Isuku specifically disclosed the incident happened at about
7.30 a.m. in Belbelo community of Jere Local Government Area in Borno State.
He said: “Information just received indicate that today at
about 0733hours (7.33am), a female suicide bomber with IED strapped to her
body, attempted to infiltrate a wedding ceremony gathering in Belbelo community
of Jere LGA.
“She was, however, prevented by a watch dog, so she had to
detonate the IED to kill herself and the dog.
“The dog was owned by resident in the locality. ”
Although the police did not state if the dog was trained in
bomb detection, it is not common in Nigeria for dogs owned by civilians to be
so trained.
Isuku noted that normalcy has since been restored in the
area and “no further casualty was recorded apart from the dog.”
The incident occurred few hours after three suicide bombers
blew themselves up at two different locations not far away from the spot where
the wedding took place..
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