AGAIN: BOKO HARAM STRIKES IN MAIDUGIRI, KILLS ELEVEN

The witness accounts affirmed that, four Boko Haram fighters, three with suicide vests on their bodies, and one armed with a rifle invaded their neighborhood and immediately shot sporadically while the suicide bombers blew themselves up.

Penpushing further reports that, Muslims who went to pray in the morning in Gwozari  were forced to cut short their prayers following the sound of gunfire, while as the muslim worshipprtd made their ways out of the mosque,  two of them were shot dead, while many also sustained injuries.

“One of the suicide bombers tried to enter a mosque where people were observing their morning prayers but before he got closer, most them had started fleeing. So, the gunman opened fire from a distance and killed two people,” an eyewitness said.

Penpushing also reports from an eyewitness account that,the other assailant detonated his suicide vests at a different locations called Kushari where he killed himself and a fleeing child, while the third suicide bomber escaped  into Maiduguri neighborhood called Polo where he detonated himself amidst fleeing people, resulting in the death of three persons.

A resident of Polo, known as Gaji, in his account said, “one of the civillian-JTF operàtives was able to shoot the gunman accompanying the two suicide bombers in the leg before a soldier came to shoot the injured gunman dead.”

Penpushing further reports that, Commissioner of Police in the State, Damian Chukwu, disclosed that the injured were later rushed to the hospital and “clearance operation is currently being carried out at the location by a joint team of Explosive Ordnance Department, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), the Police Mobile Force, the Civil Defence and the military.”