Authorities warned the sick tactic could become a “dangerous” trend among terrorists after nine people died in a blast earlier this month.

Two of the suicide bombers who carried out the January 13 attack at a market in Madagali, in the eastern state of Adamawa, had babies strapped to their backs.

The BBC reports the women had passed a vigilante checkpoint and were mistaken for civilians because they were carrying infants.

Two other attackers who were not carrying babies were stopped at the checkpoint.

Bobo Haram, the jihadist militant group which has ravaged Nigeria, is suspected to have carried out the bombing.

The group has killed 15 000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year-old insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate in north-east Nigeria.

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