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Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in a statement released on Saturday.

Edet Okon, the Police Public Relations Officer, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri that the the attackers infiltrated the mosque at about 5: 40 am, detonated Improvised Explosive Device strapped to their bodies killing themselves and others.

Fighters from Boko Haram have killed thousands in their campaign to carve out an Islamist state in their base in northeast Nigeria and have also launched attacks in neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon

The Nigerian Army said preliminary investigation revealed that the four female suicide bombers were earlier observed trying to bypass a military checkpoint through a close by a village before they were ordered to take the right road

The female suicide bombers, the Defence Headquarters said, had their bombs detonated by terrorists as they made to attack Maiduguri

The statement said with the recent trend of female suicide bombings in the country, the theft of these regalia has heightened concerns about the possibility of terrorist elements using the same to perpetrate acts of terror