Borno State - Defence Headquarters in Abuja have issued the
statement saying four suspected suicide bombers were killed in separate
explosions while trying to attack a NNPC facility along Maiduguri-Damboa
federal highway.
According to the statement signed by
Director of Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade, three of
the four explosives-laden vehicles were demobilized by soldiers'
gunfire at a major checkpoint in Mulai, a community along the Damboa-Biu
road. Five soldiers have been reported injured.
Speaking to
Agence France-Presse, Borno State police spokesman Gideon Jibrin
reported that one car exploded at 7:50 a.m., killing 3 civilians. Ten
minutes later, a bomb hit a police vehicle, killing 5 officers and 3
another persons who are yet to be determined either as civilians or Boko
Haram insurgents.
Sources at the scene say that the suicide
bombers, driving four Volkswagen golf cars laden with improvised
explosive devices rammed into two military patrol vehicles. Others
indicate the attackers were trying to speed past the checkpoint to set
off the blasts at the petrol station, which was backed up with vehicles
because of fuel shortages across Nigeria.
Immediately after the
blast, 7 Division men of Nigerian Army, mobile policemen and vigilante
youths mobilized to the scene and cordoned off the area to prevent any
further attacks. Residents of Molai and Damboa road are fleeing their
homes.
It would be recalled that an emergency rule has been
imposed onto the Northern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe in May,
2013. Recently, the Nigerian military reclaimed the Maiduguri Giwa
Barracks, capturing and killing several members of the Boko Haram sect
insurgents.
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