8th Edition
Zainab
Naifarya
1st
Prize
Zainab is a teenage girl, who last year September was sent early in the morning to buy some food items for breakfast before going to school. It happened on a Friday, when she was on her way to the bakery to buy bread, she saw a woman wearing Hijab (veil) squatting down as if she was urinating beside a mosque wall, she just passed her but was having doubt in her mind because people do not urinate beside mosque wall and a woman for that matter.
“Women do not go to mosque here in the north but if they are pressed and there is nowhere to urinate, they are allowed to use the mosque toilet” She went and bought the bread and on her way back home she still saw that same woman squatting down in that same direction.
She became so confused that how long it will take her to urinate because she spent almost 10 minutes in the bakery. She still passed her by and moved faster where she met some men drinking tea in a fast food open joint and narrated what she saw, some of them didn’t
take her report serious but a man among them insisted telling them that they do not have to ignore such information, she might be seriously sick or she can be planning something evil due to the insecurity status and challenges in the town that really alerted the other men and agreed to go. When they got there, the woman was gone but they saw a nylon bag containing refuse’s and the girl said that there was nothing there when he passed earlier.
So one of the men said they should check what was inside, to their greatest surprise they found an object looking like an explosive, they quickly informed the police and the police came with their anti-bomb squad to detect and they found out that it was a bomb that the woman planted and they timed it to explode during the Friday prayer hour.
