Suicide bombers ‘conveying’ bombs in handbags

Suicide bombers have now devised the use of fashion handbags to convey Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs),‎ the Nigeria police revealed on Tuesday.

It advised “people in and around Yobe state as well as the entire country to watch out for excessive and gorgeous dressing-bag-carrying young girls/older women.”

“This bag is one of such recent discovery in Yobe state by police EoD personnel‎,” it added.

Boko Haram has recently stepped up‎ attacks in the northeast, especially with the use of minors as suicide bombers.

The minors, strapped with bombs, are usually ‎launched on soft targets such as markets, bus stations, gatherings, mosques and churches.

More than 500 Nigerians‎ have been killed in suicide bombings since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29.