Also two suicide bombers
suspected to be member of dreaded Boko Haram sect in a golf saloon Volkswagen
car laden with Improvised Explosive Device, IEDs rammed into a security
checkpoints in Konduga Local Government Area of Borno state killing 5 members
of vigilante youth popularly known as civilian JTF, while the two suicide
bombers also lost their lives with many of the vigilante youth and passersby
sustained serious injuries and fire burns...continue after the cut...
Mafa is about 45 kilometres
East, while Dikwa is about 70 kilometres drive from Maiduguri that had suffered
series of deadly attacks by terrorists in recent times.
Maiduguri : People gather to look at
a burnt vehicle following a bomb explosion that rocked the busiest roundabout
near the crowded Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State, on July 1, 2014. A
truck exploded in a huge fireball killing at least 15 people on July 1 in the
northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the latest attack in a city repeatedly
hit by Boko Haram Islamists. AFP PHOTO
The attack on passengers and
motorists on this road is the latestm even as the Maiduguri- Damboa -Biu, and
Maiduguri- Bama -Gwoza roads have remained a death trap with no security effort
to stop the carnage as most people have abandoned these roads for fear of being
killed by terrorists who have so far taken over most of the villages along the
main road linking the state capital.
Sources said, the gunmen who wore
military camouflag uniforms disguised as soldiers on the main road, and
intercepted three vehicles with two heading towards Dikwa, while the other was
from Gamboru Ngala, a border town with Cameroon Republic before opening fire on
the occupants killing over 15 of them with the injuring of 7 others.
A reliable security source told our
Correspondent that “information available to us this evening indicated that the
Maiduguri – Dikwa road is not safe as terrorists laid ambush on passengers and
motorists killing over 15 of them at about 2:30pm , some of our men have been
mobilised to the scene, but unfortunately, they only met those killed and the
injured in the pool of their blood as the attackers have fled into the
surrounding bushes after the carnage”. He said.
Two suicide bombers suspected to be
member of dreaded Boko Haram sect in a golf saloon Volkswagen car laden with
Improvised Explosive Device, IEDs rammed into a security checkpoints in Konduga
Local Government Area of Borno state killing 5 members of vigilante youth
popularly known as civilian JTF, while the two suicide bombers also lost their
lives with many of the vigilante youth and passersby sustained serious injuries
and fire burns.
Just last Tuesday, a suicide bomber
struck in Monday Market in Maiduguri killing 16 members of Civilian JTF,
over 40 innocent civilians with destruction of property worth millions of
naira.
Our Correspondent gathered from
reliable sources that the incident took place at about 1:39pm on Friday when
Muslim faithfuls were on their way to the Mosque for Juma’at prayers.
Konduga is about 40 kilometres drive
from Maiduguri Metropolis which had witnessed series of deadly attacks with the
killing of over 50 worshippers in a Mosque during Asba/ morning Prayers.
Sources said the two suicide bombers
outsmarted the military operatives at their checkpoint when they were
intercepted, but pleaded with the soldiers on duty to allow them go without
been searched as they were already late for the Jumaat prayers.
The sources said as soon as their
plea was granted by the soldiers they freely allowed pass, and when they
approached another checkpoint of the Civilian JTF just few metres away from the
Military post, they detonated the explosives killing five of the vigilante
youth including the suicide bombers.
Our Correspondent gathered that the
remains or mangled bodies of the civilian JTF members died in the blast have
since been buried according to Islamic rite in Konduga, while the injured were
rushed to undisclosed hospital in Maiduguri where medical personnel were
battling on how to save their lives.
A member of House of Assembly
Representing Konduga and now the newly elected State Chairman of the ruling All
Progressive Congress, APC in Borno, Hon. Ali Dalori was sighted busy by our
Correspondent after the Jumaat prayers in Maiduguri arranging security
operatives that will accompany him to Konduga to enable him and other
goverment officials attain the burial ceremony of the the deceased who
were killed in the blast.
All effort to get the Police Public
Relations Officer, DSP Gideon Jubrin for confirmation was not fruitful as his
phone line was switched off at press time.
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