Boko Haram suicide bombers have devised a new method, now dressing “like mad persons to gain unsuspecting access to public areas to detonate bombs,” Defence Headquarters said today. “The two male suicide bombers, dressed like mad women and who carried out suicide bomb attack in Gombi, Adamawa State, is instructive in this direction. Five people lost their lives and several others were wounded in the heinous attack by these ungodly people,” Acting Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, said in a statement issued in Abuja.

“The Defence Headquarters therefore urges our fellow good citizens across the country to be wary of mad persons approaching markets, public places or crowded areas so as to nip this ugly trend in the bud,” Abubakar said.

He appealed to Nigerians “to be security conscious at all times and should endeavour to report any suspicious person or object to security agencies for prompt action.”

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