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MALIHA, Nigeria, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The Nigerian military said it arrested a second suspected Boko Haram militant who was named in a recently crafted most-wanted list. Xinhua news agency, quoting a military statement, reported security forces apprehended Ishaku Wardifen, a Cameroonian national, at a military checkpoint Monday in the town of Maliha, in northwestern Nigeria's Adamawa state.
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"Visual matching with photographs on the poster of the 100 declared suspected Boko Haram terrorists wanted list shows that he clearly resembles the suspect on serial number 22 on the list," the statement read.
On Sunday, Chindo Bello became the first suspect on the list, which names 100 others, to be captured as he attempted to board a flight in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
Warfiden's arrest came the same day neighboring Chad called a state of emergency in the Lake Chad region following a suicide bombing that killed at least three people there Sunday.
Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram has since 2009 waged a campaign of suicide bombings, mass kidnappings, executions and assaults on remote villages and military bases in Nigeria and surrounding nations such as Niger, Chad and Cameroon, killing more than 13,000 people.
On Monday, two female suicide bombers suspected of belonging to Boko Haram killed three Nigerian nationals in Cameroon's far north region.
The same day, officials in Senegal said they arrested five suspects with ties to the terrorist group.
