ABUJA, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Three female suicide bombers died when their explosive devices blew up as security operatives aborted an attack targeting a military outpost in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, local police said on Thursday.
The suspected attackers, with improvised explosive devices strapped to their bodies, were accosted at the gate of 195 Battalion of the army located in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, late Wednesday, said Murtala Ibrahim, a spokesperson for the police.
"The three bombers detonated their IEDs, killing themselves only, while one soldier was said to have been injured," the police spokesman said.
He told Xinhua the police anti-bomb unit personnel visited the scene and rendered it safe and restored normalcy.
The National Emergency Management Agency said the suspected bombers were teenagers.
"They were sighted trying to gain access to the premises and were shot by the security agents on guard leading to the detonation of their concealed explosives," the agency said in a statement.
Terror group Boko Haram, which is blamed for thousands of deaths and displacement of 2.3 million people since 2009, is suspected to be responsible for the attack.
Maiduguri, the birthplace of the terror group, had also served as the armed group's headquarters and spiritual base for several years until the Nigerian military cleared their largest training camp last December.
Government forces are intensifying aerial and ground patrols in the country's northeast.
