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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The shooting occurred outside a bustling market  near Madagali town.

Boko Haram is suspected of being behind the incident.

Civilian fighters who work alongside the army challenged the girls as they approached the village.

The girls began running at the fighters’ checkpoint.

The fighters shot the girl in the lead, activating her explosives and killing her and a companion.

The third girl tried to flee and was gunned down.

Two women suicide bombers killed 57 people and wounded 177, including 120 children, last month at Madagali market, 20 kilometres from the scene of Wednesday’s shootings.

Boko Haram has used scores of women and girls as young as seven in suicide bombings that have killed hundreds last year.

Some of the bombers are suspected to have been previously kidnapped.

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