Borno car explosion now records 18 people Killed
Borno car explosion now records 18 people Killed with more being expected
At the outskirt of the northeastern part of Nigeria Borno state an explosion went off this morning at Muna garage, as a convoy with military escort was going to Gamboru Ngala.Reports now shows that 18 people are found dead and 15 people are wounded from a car explosion believed to be the handiwork of Boko Haram. Boko Haram (Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad”), is an Islamic extremist group based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon.
The group had alleged links to al-Qaeda, but in March 2015, it announced its allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Since the current insurgency started in 2009, it has killed 20,000 people and displaced 2.3 million from their homes and was ranked as the world’s deadliest terror group by the Global Terrorism Index in 2015.
A witness said he saw 10 corpses at the scene of the explosion, but a source in Maiduguri Specialist Hospital said that not less than 18 bodies were deposited in the hospital morgue with more being expected. Five people were in the taxi hit by the bomber.
However, Public Relations Officer of Borno state Police Command, ASP, said five persons died, while five others sustained injuries.
The army has retaken much of the territory initially lost to the militants but Boko Haram still stages suicide bombing attacks and plants roadside bombs.
“We evacuated eight dead bodies and about 20 other injured persons,” said a rescue worker. A hospital official put the number of wounded at ten.
Some other reports said another bomb, found in the vehicle where the first one exploded has been neutralized.
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