Friday, 5 June 2015

In Borno "Soldiers killed in Maiduguri suicide bombing attack"


 A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber has killed soldiers at a checkpoint near a military barrack in Maiduguri.

The bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives as he was being searched, security sources said on Thursday, June 4.

The blast occurred a few hours after another explosion rocked a major market in Yola, Adamawa, which is a neighbouring state.

It was not immediately ascertained the number of soldiers that died in the blast.
A senior officer, who spoke to Premium Times anonymously confirmed the incident to journalists.

“Of course there was a blast today, but it was not exactly at the military checkpoint as you said; it was some 60meters away from it; and it was civilians that were affected”.

But in a contrary account, a member of Civilian-JTF, Bashir Malam, told journalists that some soldiers were killed by the bomb that was detonated by a suicide bomber who was driving a car coming into the town from the Baga town.

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