[YAHOO] One person was maimed when a jacket wallah aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year's Eve attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses and aid workers told AFP Sunday.The girl approached a crowd buying noodles from a food vendor in the Customs area of the city around 9:30 pm on Saturday and detonated her explosives, they said.
Although no one has grabbed credit the attack bore the hallmark of Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Islamists who are notorious for using suicide bombers, mostly women and maidens, in attacking civilian targets.
"The girl walked towards the crowd but she blew up before she could reach her target," said witness Grema Usman who lives in the area.
"She died instantly, while one person was seriously hurt after after he was hit by shrapnel."
"(Judging) from her corpse the girl was around 10 years old," Usman said.
An aid worker involved in the evacuation of the body gave a similar estimate of the bomber's age.
"The girl was clearly not more than 10 and this could have made her too nervous, making her to detonate the explosives prematurely," the aid worker suggested.
Borno state police front man Victor Isuku, meanwhile, said a second
In December two girls aged between seven and eight detonated explosives in suicide kabooms on market in the city, injuring 19 people.