Boko Haram
Terror group stages 3 suicide attacks in NE Nigeria
The Islamist group have multiplied their attacks in recent days, Chukwu said, without detailing the incidents.
Boko Haram Islamists staged three suicide attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast on Friday, leaving four attackers and two civilian vigilantes dead, police said.
"Aside
from the explosion near a mobile police location in Jiddari, we had two
other suicide bombings along Maiduguri-Gamboru road," Borno state police commissioner Damian Chukwu told reporters in Maiduguri, epicentre of Boko Haram's seven-year insurgency.
The Islamist group have multiplied their attacks in recent days, Chukwu said, without detailing the incidents.
"This
is about the sixth or seventh suspected suicide attack in the last
couple of days. The police and other security agents are working hard to
stop the ugly trend," he said.
The
first attack took place before dawn when a female suicide bomber blew
herself and another bomber up near a police checkpoint at Jiddari, Borno
state police spokesman Victor Isuku earlier said,
A third suspected bomber survived and was being questioned.
"At
3:50am today, mobile police personnel on guard duty opposite the
federal high court in Jiddari sighted three suspected suicide bombers
comprising two females and a male running towards their sandbag," Isuku said.
"They ordered them to a halt for questioning but they refused," he said. "One
of the females detonated the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strapped
to her body, killing herself and one other male accomplice," he said.
Later
in the morning a male suicide bomber detonated his explosives after
being stopped at the entrance of a garage on the Maiduguri-Gamboru road
where traders had gathered to travel under military escort.
The bomber died instantly, police said.
Another
male suicide bomber detonated his explosives on the same road a few
meters away a little later, killing himself and two local vigilantes,
assisting the military to fight the jihadists.
Ahmed
Satomi of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said five
villages in Monguno had been attacked by Boko Haram insurgents early in
the week, leaving eight dead and dozens injured.
"Boko
Haram gunmen attacked the five villages late Monday and continued until
Tuesday. They killed eight people and injured dozens," he said.
He said the victims had been evacuated by soldiers who deployed to the area.
Boko
Haram, which seeks to impose strict Islamic sharia law in Nigeria's
mainly-Muslim north, has killed at least 20,000 people and left more
than 2.6 million homeless in its six-year insurgency.
A
counter-offensive backed by a regional force has seen the Nigerian
military retake swathes of territory from the insurgents, but the
jihadist group still poses a security threat to civilians.
On
November 1, a truck carrying eight suspected Boko Haram extremists
exploded near a military checkpoint in Maiduguri, killing all the
occupants.
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