debora patta is following all of this for us. debora, children as suicide bombers? what you can tell us? >> reporter: well, they've been two attacks by child suicide bombers just this weekend, both in crowded marketplaces, and doctors believe that one of the children was no more than 10 years old. now, this whole development came to light when a 13-year-old girl was sent on a suicide mission with two other women to kano. the women blew themselves up and after she watched this, she refused to detonate her vest packed with explosives and was arrested by police. she said that her father had given her to boko haram. it's known that the group does pay the families of suicide bombers. she told police that she was forced to put on this vest, but it's unclear whether she even knew it was a bomb until she saw what happened to her companions. >> pelley: do we know why boko haram is using children? >> reporter: it's hard to tell, but it's obviously a very worrying trend if it continues. some of the my sources think it signals desperation on the part of boko haram. their extrem

this comes days after another attack that left hundreds, possibly thousands dead, here is debora patta. >> reporter: this past week saw what could be boko haram's deadliest massacre to date marking another hideous milestone in the group's the increasingly violent campaign. the latest massacre is in the baga in the far northeastern region of nigeria. they estimate hundreds of people, possibly as many as 2,000 could have been killed. we are hearing reports people >> we are hearing reports people going to the village are walking over dead bodies, men, women children. basically signs of an indiscriminate attack and certain major war crime by boko haram. >> reporter: the nigerian military has been unable to contain boko haram as it has rampaged through the north over the past year alone more than 11,000 people have been killed by the group and in the paste five years one and a half million have been displaced. there is a lack of leadership the nigerian military. >> the evidence does indicate a strange lack of awareness or ability to the protect nigerian civilians and it is very disturbing a