Twenty persons, including a female suicide
bomber were killed in a large market in
Maiduguri, the capital of the Borno
State following an attack by the Boko Haram
sect on Saturday
The female bomber was a 10-year-
old girl. The incident also injured 18 persons
, the Police Public Relations officer of
the Borno State Police Command, Gideon
Jubrin, confirmed
According To Him the incident occurred at about
12:30pm in a part of the market.
Also, the spokesman of the National
Emergency Management Authority,
AbdulKadir Ibrahim, said workers from the
agency were at the market to help those
injured in the explosion
.
The attack was at the Yen-Kaji area of the
market where chickens are sold. The section
was immediately cordoned off by the military
as tension rose in the crisis stricken town.
The Red Cross were seen conveying
injured persons to the hospital
In another incident , many people were killed in
Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State late
Friday night as members of the Boko Haram sect attacked
the town.
The Executive Director of Stefanos
Foundation, Mr. Mark Lipdo, quoting military
sources in the state, said the militants
Started an attack on the city around 8 pm.
The attack began few hours after military
authorities said they had started a war to
take over Baga from the militants.
Amnesty International had said the attack on
Baga by the sect remained the deadliest in
the history of Boko Haram’s over five-year
reign of terror in the North-East as no fewer
than 2,000 people were feared killed in the
incident.
The attack on Damaturu also came on the
heels of a similar attack on Gwoza in Borno
State the day before. Boko Haram was
reported to have pulled down houses of the
minority ethnic and religious people and
Churches in Gwoza Local Government
Area. They were said to have also succeeded
in pulling down COCIN Church building and
other places of worship around the area..
In a related case, two persons were
on Saturday killed in a bomb blast at the
Polistum Divisional Police Station in Yobe
State.
Meanwhile, no fewer than 200 Boko Haram
members were killed by troops at Askira Uba,
a border town between Adamawa and Borno
states on Saturday.
The insurgents, were trying
to get into Damaturu, Adamawa State,
through the town but were killed by the
troops who were stationed in the area during
a gun battle.
The terrorists had earlier attempted to storm
Damaturu on Friday, but were chased back by the
military, during an operation that lasted for
several hours.
community leaders in the area have enlisted
the help of local hunters and vigilance groups
to assist the military to fight back attacks by
the terrorists.
The Director, Defence Information, Maj.Gen.
Chris Olukolade could not be reached for
comments on Saturday.
Also, the United Nations refugee agency has
stated that 7,300 Nigerian refugees have
arrived in western Chad in the past 10 days,
fleeing attacks by insurgents on Baga town
and surrounding villages.
The UN spokesperson, Adrian Edwards, said
the agency’s teams in Chad were at the
border and seeking more information on the
new arrivals and their needs.
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