Bomb kills Five boko haram members at factory site
Tuesday, April 24, 2012Omoba
In other News, Five suspected members of Boko Haram were killed when
bombs they were assembling exploded during a shootout with officers of the
Joint Military Task Force (JTF) at their bomb making facility in the north
eastern town of Biu, 190km from Maiduguri, in northern Nigeria.
A military commander of the Joint Military Task
Force (JTF), Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, in charge of security said the
bombs were being assembled for attacks planned for the city of Maiduguri, the
Borno state capital which has been the epicentre of the insurgency that has
killed more than 1,000 people since mid-2009.
According to the military commander, the JTF
officers were deployed to the region to stem the violence and they had
surrounded the hideout.
The military officers engaged the sect members in a
shootout.
Colonel Ebhalame said the insurgents had thrown a
bomb at the soldiers when the other bombs inside the house went off, killing
the five suspects and destroying the house.
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