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10-year-old cattle herder has been killed in north-eastern Nigeria while trying
to remove explosives that militant Islamist forcibly strapped around his body,
police have said.
The
boy's younger brother was injured in the incident, which happened on Saturday
on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the main city in north-eastern Nigeria, police
added.
The two
children came in contact with the Boko Haram militants while grazing their
animals, police said.
The
militants forced the elder boy to wear a suicide vest, and warned him not to
tell anyone about it and not remove it until he got home, police added.
They
returned home and the death and injuries were caused while unstrapping the
vest, police said.
There
have been persistent reports of Boko Haram conscripting children to carry out
attacks around Maiduguri in the past few months.
So far,
police say that 76 suicide attacks were carried out between March and July this
year.
This
morning, a female suicide bomber struck at a mosque in Maiduguri, killing eight
people and injuring 15 others.
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