ABUJA, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian troops have nabbed a teenage girl who confessed to being on a suicide mission in the northeastern city Maiduguri, birthplace of terror group Boko Haram, the army said on Tuesday.
In a statement on its official Twitter account, the army said the girl was on a lone mission and was arrested while attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri, also the capital of the northern state of Borno.
The 19-year-old, identified as Shaidatu Adamu, was wearing a suicide vest when the army arrested her.
She told interrogators that she had been in Sambisa Forest, the largest training camp of Boko Haram in Borno for three years.
The army said experts have been deployed to diffuse the explosives she was carrying.
Further investigation has been launched on the suspect's mission, the army added.
Boko Haram has been trying to establish an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria since 2009.
The group in the Lake Chad Basin has posed enormous security, humanitarian and governance challenges, according to the United Nations.
Four countries caught up in the insurgency are Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. The UN said Boko Haram has displaced nearly 2.4 million people in the Lake Chad sub-region.
