Boko Haram Attacks JTF Convoy In Maiduguri, Borno State

«§» 8 October 2012

KANO (AFP) – A bomb blast targeting an army patrol shook an area of the restive city of Maiduguri on Monday, wounding two soldiers, the military said, while residents reported seeing six dead bodies.



Residents in the northeastern city also alleged soldiers beat people in the neighbourhood after the explosion, but the army denied the accusations.

A bomb planted on a road in Maiduguri, the home base of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, exploded when a military patrol van drove over it, said Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa.
“There was a bomb blast involving a JTF vehicle at about 7:15 am today along Lagos street in Maiduguri metropolis. Two soldiers sustained injury,” said Musa in a statement, referring to a military joint task force.
Two residents in the area claimed to have seen six dead soldiers being evacuated in a military van.
Residents said soldiers deployed in the area shortly after the explosion and indiscriminately attacked residents with horse whips and gun butts, forcing traders to lower their shutters.
“The Gamboru and Monday markets in the area are closed because soldiers came into the area and began molesting people, hitting them with gun butts and horse whips after the explosion,” said a resident speaking on condition of anonymity.
The army denied the accusation.
Nigerian soldiers have often been accused of such abuses following bomb blasts in the country’s northeast.
Boko Haram Islamists have killed scores of security personnel in bomb and shooting attacks since 2010, when it resumed its deadly insurgency after a 2009 uprising was crushed in a brutal military crackdown.
It is blamed for more than 1,400 deaths in northern and central Nigeria since 2010.

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Posted: at 8-10-2012 06:48 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

Oh my God, i am happy that the JTF are really doing good job in the North. If not because Good luck is a very good man, he should have given and order which OBJ gave during his tenure in office. OBJ ordered to demolish ODI. And now i expect that Jonathan should pass an order to demolish the North so that there will be peace in the country. I do not care about the monkeys over there planting bomb all around the visinity in order to create chaos. The northern baboons in human flesh. The commander of the JTF should pass order to kill every male there so far the male is from aboki land. Period. I rest my case.

Posted: at 8-10-2012 09:05 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 8-10-2012 09:31 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

 

Posted: at 8-10-2012 09:51 PM (11 years ago) | Hero

Da furk? I hope they are get caught

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Posted: at 8-10-2012 10:09 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

Ok

Posted: at 8-10-2012 10:27 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

Posted: at 8-10-2012 11:14 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Okay

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Posted: at 8-10-2012 11:37 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

Posted: at 9-10-2012 01:19 AM (11 years ago) | Hero

 

Posted: at 9-10-2012 05:18 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac