No fewer than 48
people were killed yesterday in various parts of the North on a day governors
raised the alarm over the security situation.
Boko Haram suicide
bombers hit Maiduguri, the Borno State capital with two blasts, killing 11
people, including five policemen.
Seventeen people died
in Nasarawa State’s communal clash in which a monarch’s palace was burnt down.
Fulani herdsmen
continued their onslaught on the Tiv communities in Benue, killing 20.
There was panic in
Kaduna over a bomb scare.
About 10 people died
in two separate bomb blasts in Dalori, Konjuga Local Government Area of Borno
State.
The dead included two
suicide bombers.
An eye witness said
five police men were on patrol when their vehicle was blown up by the suicide
bombers when they were confronted on the highway around Dalori, about five
kilometres from the University of Maiduguri.
According to eye
witnesses, at the Dalori check point area of the road, another bomb exploded
about five kilometres from Dalori. The suicide bombers were alleged to have
thrown an improvised bomb into a commuter vehicle, killing three people inside
the vehicle.
“It is the same
vehicle that deliberately drove into the police vehicle, killing all five
policemen inside the patrol vehicle. The Policemen had accosted the vehicle for
normal stop and search which has been going on since the attack on Giwa
Barracks by the insurgents but the suicide bombers drove their vehicle into
them while simultaneously throwing an IDI into their vehicle.
“The police vehicle
exploded instantly, killing them and destroying their patrol vehicle beyond
recognition,” said the source.
The two suicide
bombers equally died inside a golf vehicle burnt down completely at the check
point
Soldiers opened the
road and mounted a massive manhunt for the insurgents.
Many people were
injured.
The charred remains of
the Golf car and shredded police patrol vehicle were seen near the check point.
Nurses at the
casuality wing of the University of Maiduguiri Teaching Hospital said the
charred bodies of the five policemen were deposited at the morgue.
“We received the
bodies of the five policemen while about 14 injured cases have been brought so
far.
“We have been tending
to the injured and I do not think there is any very critical case that would
lead to death now,” said a hospital source.
Suspected Fulani
herdsmen shot and killed 20 Tiv farmers in an early morning attack,in Agena,
Mbtseda, Mbalom district ,Gwer Local Government Area.
According to the
federal lawmaker, representing Gwer/Gwer West Federal Constituency, Mrs
Christina Alaaga, the attackers stormed Agena village, a popular railway
settlement in Mbatseda, Mbalom district, at about 6am.
“They opened fire on
the houses and as people attempted to escape, they gunned them down. We counted
20 bodies. Many others sustained serious injuries and were taken to the
hospital in Aliade and Makurdi”, she said.
Hon. Alaaga expressed
shock that were brutally murdered.
Chairman of Gwer local
government council, David Maor, said the bodies were taken to the Federal
Medical Centre morgue.
Police Spokesman
Daniel Ezeala said only seven people were killed adding that investigation had
commenced.
The palace of the
paramount ruler of Giza chiefdom in Keana local government area in Nasarawa
state, Umaru Elegu Abu, was razed in the early hours of yesterday. More than 17
people were killed in the raid carried out by yet to be identified gunmen.
Police Spokesman Umar
Ismaila who confirmed the incident said only five people died.
He said: “Armed Tiv
militia attacked Giza town of Kadarko development area.
“On getting the
report, a combined team of conventional police and Mobile Force led by the
Kadarko DPO, Ikojo Sunday, mobilised to the scene and repelled the attack”
Information available
to the police according to him indicated that “three inhabitants and two
attackers were killed in the process”
He said normalcy had
returned to the affected area.
One of the victims who
craved anonymity said “the gunmen killed several people. As I speak to you, we
have been able to recover nine bodies from the surrounding bushes while some
are still been searched for. The ones so far discovered have been taken for
burial”.
The police in Kaduna
yesterday detonated a high calibre Improvised Explosive Device (IED), allegedly
dropped at the ever-busy Sultan road/Kashim Ibrahim road junction by an
unidentified motorcyclist. There was pandemonium in the area.
The junction is
located a few metres away from Essence International School, one of the
highbrow private schools in Kaduna .
Kaduna Police
Spokesman, Aminu Lawan, said: “We got a distress call that a polythene bag
containing a questionable substance was dropped by a moving Okada man. So we
quickly ordered our Anti Bomb squad team to the area.
“The area was
immediately condoned off when it was discovered that the polythene bag
contained high calibre IED, and our Anti-Bomb Squad was able to successfully
detonate the IED and the area was immediately brought under control.
“As I speak to you
now, the area is calm and people are already going about their normal
activities.”
Lawan also said men of
the surveillance and SID personnel were deployed in the area to monitor
movements of persons with questionable characters and advised that people
should maintain some level of vigilance
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