More people have reportedly lost their precious lives after deadly attacks reportedly carried out by two suicide bombers. According to Daily Trust, eleven people were yesterday confirmed dead and 43 others injured in a twin bomb blast on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Borno State Capital. It was gathered from witnesses at the scene of the incident that two teenage girls suspected to be Boko Haram suicide bombers, had walked through a street of Muna, five kilometres away from the metropolis.
“Not knowing that they would later turn out to be Boko Haram girls, I really saw them walking along a street nearby. I
even wanted to help them out, thinking both girls who looked like
strangers were looking for a house where a wedding ceremony was taking
place. But shortly after, I just heard an explosion which turned out to be from those two girls I had just passed by 20 minutes earlier, they were suicide bombers. I could have been their first victim,” one of the witnesses said in his Shuwa-Arab language.
The
national and state emergency agencies, after the evacuation of the
victims, placed the death toll at five while a civilian JTF personnel,
who participated in the exercise, said they had evacuated eight corpses;
while three out of the injured ones died at the hospital.
The
NEMA’s spokesman in Maiduguri, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, in a statement
yesterday, said: “Emergency response teams have confirmed that two
female PBIED carriers detonated their explosives within five minutes
interval at Muna-Dalti settlement yesterday evening (6/4/2019). “As a result, three persons died and two bombers while close to 41 others sustained various degrees of injuries. The injured are currently receiving medical treatment at General Hospital Maiduguri.”
His
SEMA counterpart, Usman Kachalla, said: “We have evacuated the wounded
to the Specialist Hospital but unfortunately three persons dead at the
spot (excluding the bombers) and 46 other are receiving medical
attention at State Specialist Hospital.”
In another development, armed bandits stormed a community in Kaduna and dealt brutally with the residents. According
to reports, there was confusion on Saturday evening when armed bandits
attacked Kakangi village, south-west of Birnin-Gwari of Kaduna state
while residents were attending mass wedding in the area.
The bandits stormed Kakangi around 5.00 pm on motorcycles, shooting sporadically and attacked a police station before going on a house-to-house attack and torching houses. Many were feared dead and the six critically injured victims, among them children, have been rushed to General Hospital, Birnin Gwari, for treatment.
A resident of the area who escaped the attack and presently at Gagumi village about 20 kilometres from Kakangi narrated how he escaped.
“We were sitting in front of the police station and suddenlyheavily armed bandits started shooting. I jumped the fence to escape. As I was escaping, thick smoke from several location overshadowed the sky,” he said.
Another
resident of Birnin Gwari who pleaded for anonymity said, “We need help
in Birnin Gwari because our people are being killed daily by bandits. Just look at what happened at Kakangi on Saturday,” he said
Confirming
the incident Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari chairman Birnin Gwari Vanguard
for Security and Good governance in a statement issued to journalists
said the bandits set ablaze houses in the village.” Several sources
said many people feared dead including high profile indigenes of
Kakangi, that were attending a mass wedding,” he said.
The state Police Command Spokesman DSP Yakubu Sabo couldn’t be reached for comment as he neither answered calls nor did he reply text messages sent to him.
The people of these affected areas are looking up to the government to do something to save them from these heartless attackers.
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