By Muhammad Maitela, Damaturu
Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) planted by terrorists on the Pulka/Firgi road in Gwoza Local Government of Borno has killed seven farmers in a commercial vehicle in a fresh attacks.
The sources from the area, including Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region confirmed the incident on Monday.
The sources revealed that the attacks occurred in the early hours of Monday, when the vehicle conveying the victims ran over an explosive.
Adding that, “Seven passengers including the driver were confirmed dead, seven others were severely injured while other bodies were shattered into pieces by the explosive.”
ISWAP and Boko Haram terrorists have been resorting to desperate but extreme measures to fight back against the crushing intrusion of their enclaves by the Nigerian Military.
According to investigation, the terrorists now heightened the use of IEDs as their major warfare tactics due to their weakness and depleted capacity.
These landmines had in the past days and weeks claimed the lives of innocent civilians– mostly women children in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria.
The IEDs, mostly locally made bombs, account for more than half of the fatalities recorded in the ongoing counter-insurgency campaign in the Northeast.
This occurred in an 48 hours after 5 Almajiris and two suspected members of Boko Haram died in an Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), suspected to be a suicide attacks.
