MAIDEN OF DEATH
Video captures the moment female Boko Haram suicide bomber blows herself up
Sick terror group uses women, girls and even babies to dodge security checkpoints
SHOCKING video captures the moment a female Boko Haram suicide bomber blew herself up in Nigeria.
The footage emerged as it was claimed the Islamist terror group is abducting and drugging women and forcing them to marry its fighters as part of its campaign to recruits them for suicide missions.
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The video shows the aftermath of a double suicide bomb attack in Gwoza in eastern Nigeria.
A fearful crowd watches orange flames and a huge cloud of black smoke after two women are said to have detonated their explosives.
Soldiers then realise a third woman is part of the attack, and open fire in her direction as residents flee for safety.
Suddenly a blast rocks the town as the woman sets off her bomb in a bright flash.
Another video reported by the BBC showed three more women who were talked out of launching suicide attacks after being recruited by Boko Haram.
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Sick jihadis have forced dozens of women and even girls as young as ten to carry suicide bombs for them.
Some women have strapped babies to their chests to pass through security checkpoints before blowing themselves and the infants up.
Security services have denied they have a shoot-to-kill policy for any women who fail to stop at checkpoints.
But troops are on high alert for revenge strikes after they recaptured territory from the terrorists in recent months.
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Nigeria's military is engaged in "ransacking" the terrain for elusive terror leader Abubakar Shekau, who is said to be hiding in dense forests.
His army of fanatics were behind the notorious kidnapping of more 276 girls from their school in Chibok in April 2014. More than 200 of them are still missing.
Another 500 children were abducted from Damasak when it fell under Boko Haram control in November 2014, it has emerged.
The campaign group Human Rights Watch said yesterday officials still refuse to acknowledge the largest-ever mass abduction of Nigerian schoolchildren
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