Two Dogs Foil Suicide Bomb Attack

Two dogs on Friday foiled an attempt by two suicide bombers to detonate bombs at the Moloi General Hospital in Maiduguri, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The foiled attack is the latest in a string of deadly attacks on soft targets by the Boko Haram group in Nigeria’s northeast, the hotbed of the Islamic insurgency.
Fatomi Ahmed, the Chairman of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed the development in an interview with a NAN correspondent after the attack. He said that the agency had deployed a rescue team to evacuate debris at the scene of the foiled attack.
Bello Danbatta, the Spokesman of the Civilian Joint Task Force, who also confirmed the incident, said that the dogs and the bombers died instantly in the attack but that no other life was lost.
An eye-witness, Rilwan Isah, told NAN that persistent barking by the two dogs prevented the suicide bombers from gaining entry into the hospital premises. He explained that the insurgents, a male and female, were attacked by the dogs, forcing them to detonate the explosives strapped to their bodies. He said that the dogs belonged to members of the CJTF and had been deployed to the area for rescue operations.