SUSPECTED
terrorists attacked a residential compound in Bolori ward of
Maiduguri, Borno State and killed nine people in the early hours of
yesterday.
The attack came barely 48 hours after the National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) held a closed door meeting with traditional and religious leaders, including the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai
El-Kanemi and Governor Kashim Shettima over the insurgency in the North.
Also, gunmen killed a policeman in the early hours of yesterday at Chiranchi quarters in Kano while he was getting his motorcycle repaired.
Sources said that the policeman was attacked by men in green clothes who were on a Lifan motorcycle.
An eyewitness Sani Ibrahim said around 7:20 a.m. some men who were on a motorcycle began to shoot a man until he fell and they kept firing to scare away the onlookers before riding away. A passerby was injured at the scene.
The police arrived later at the scene and took away the body.
The police pubic relations officer Rilwanu Dutse could not confirm the incident at the time of filing the report but insisted that investigation was going on and that the command would respond.
An eyewitness of the attacks and killings in Bolori ward, Maiduguri said that the terrorists, numbering about 12 with Kalashnikov rifles, knives and swords, slit the throats of their victims without firing a single gunshot.
He said: “We were shocked and terrified with how the gunmen entered this compound, without firing a single shot at any of us living in this compound. They threatened us by wielding their AK 47 rifles and asked some of us to lie down with our faces on the ground. But I had to flee through the fence and hid in a neighbour’s toilet for six hours this morning (Monday).”
Another resident, Mallam Hamidu Usman also told The Guardian in a telephone interview yesterday that “at about midnight I heard the crying and wailings of some people in the neighbouring compound. I thought it was a fire outbreak, but I could not see any fire or smoke coming out from the compound. Thirty minutes after I started hearing some people crying and wailing…..wayoo… Allah na….wayoo till this morning by 6.30 a.m. when soldiers started shooting in the Bolori area and condoned it off.”
He said that 11 people were killed in the compound, stating that the throats of the victims were slit with knives and swords by suspected gunmen at about 2p.m.
Confirming the incident, spokesman of Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt. Col Sagir Musa in a statement said that nine people were killed at the compound in Bolori ward of Maiduguri metropolis of Borno State.
He added that the victims of the terrorists’ “attacks and massacre,” were construction workers at the uncompleted Borno Central Mosque of Shehu’s palace.
The attack came barely 48 hours after the National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) held a closed door meeting with traditional and religious leaders, including the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai
El-Kanemi and Governor Kashim Shettima over the insurgency in the North.
Also, gunmen killed a policeman in the early hours of yesterday at Chiranchi quarters in Kano while he was getting his motorcycle repaired.
Sources said that the policeman was attacked by men in green clothes who were on a Lifan motorcycle.
An eyewitness Sani Ibrahim said around 7:20 a.m. some men who were on a motorcycle began to shoot a man until he fell and they kept firing to scare away the onlookers before riding away. A passerby was injured at the scene.
The police arrived later at the scene and took away the body.
The police pubic relations officer Rilwanu Dutse could not confirm the incident at the time of filing the report but insisted that investigation was going on and that the command would respond.
An eyewitness of the attacks and killings in Bolori ward, Maiduguri said that the terrorists, numbering about 12 with Kalashnikov rifles, knives and swords, slit the throats of their victims without firing a single gunshot.
He said: “We were shocked and terrified with how the gunmen entered this compound, without firing a single shot at any of us living in this compound. They threatened us by wielding their AK 47 rifles and asked some of us to lie down with our faces on the ground. But I had to flee through the fence and hid in a neighbour’s toilet for six hours this morning (Monday).”
Another resident, Mallam Hamidu Usman also told The Guardian in a telephone interview yesterday that “at about midnight I heard the crying and wailings of some people in the neighbouring compound. I thought it was a fire outbreak, but I could not see any fire or smoke coming out from the compound. Thirty minutes after I started hearing some people crying and wailing…..wayoo… Allah na….wayoo till this morning by 6.30 a.m. when soldiers started shooting in the Bolori area and condoned it off.”
He said that 11 people were killed in the compound, stating that the throats of the victims were slit with knives and swords by suspected gunmen at about 2p.m.
Confirming the incident, spokesman of Joint Task Force (JTF), Lt. Col Sagir Musa in a statement said that nine people were killed at the compound in Bolori ward of Maiduguri metropolis of Borno State.
He added that the victims of the terrorists’ “attacks and massacre,” were construction workers at the uncompleted Borno Central Mosque of Shehu’s palace.
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