Female suicide bomber targets Kano mosque

A female suicide bomber on Monday night blew herself up outside a popular Kano mosque, Umar Ibn Khattab, on Zoo road in Kano metropolis.

This happened a few minutes after the night prayers.

The teenager had attempted to enter the mosque when the explosives went off.

She was killed while some members of the vigilante group attached to the place of worship were injured.

The incident happened at about 9:21pm after the congregation of Isha and Tarawe prayers.

The vigilate group had been screening worshippers entering the mosque and the bomber was said to have retreated, but she stayed around the vicinity.

Musa Magaji Majia, an assistant superintendent of police and spokesman of the Kano state police command, confirmed the explosion.

This is the third in two days – after a suicide attack on a church in Potiskum, Yobe state, and a double attack in Jos, Plateau state, on Sunday.

Boko Haram insurgents are the immediate suspects.

Kano has been the scene of some of the deadliests blasts carried in northern Nigeria, most notable being an attack on the emir’s mosque in late 2014.