- By: Hamza Suleiman
- The Borno Police Command said
- an Improvised Explosive Device(IED), explosion resulted in the death of one male victim while eleven others sustained various degrees of injuries in another attack in Maiduguri.
- The Police Commissioner (CP), Yusuf Lawal, disclosed this on Friday while providing a situation report to the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN).
- He said that the incident occurred during a protest against bad governance at Deribe Junction near Federal Government Girls’ College Monguno (FGGC) Annex Bulumkutu area, Maiduguri.
- Lawal said that the injured victims were taken to the State Specialist Hospital Maiduguri for treatment while the corpse was given out for autopsy.
- He said that the police swiftly deployed the personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Device(EOD), Base 13, whoh probed the scene and rendered the area around a filling station safe
- “In a separate incident, a case of culpable homicide was reported in Biu local government area,” Lawal said.
- The commissioner said that one Muhammad Wakshama reported that his son-in-law, Ibrahim Bulama, had a misunderstanding with his wife, Maryam Ibrahim, and hit her with a stick on the head, resulting in serious injury.
- According to him, the victim was taken to the General Hospital Biu for treatment but she was confirmed dead on Thursday.
- He added that the suspect was arrested and an exhibit was recovered while investigation was ongoing.
- Lwal said that these incidents brought the total number of deaths in the state to 17 in the past 48 hours, with many others injured.
- “The Borno command assures the citizens that investigations are ongoing and that normalcy has been restored,”he said.(NAN)
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