By Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
The Borno state police commissioner, Damian Chukwu has disclosed that three Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked Muna Garage and Dalti community by detonating their strapped Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and killed 13 people on outskirts of Maiduguri metropolis.
All the suicide bombers were blown up to death; that rocked the city throughout yesterday’s night.
Eighteen people were also injured in the multiple suicide bombings that occurred on Sunday at about 8pm.
Chukwu, who confirmed the death toll yesterday, said that the suicide bombers burst into the Muna Garage through the Maiduguri-Dikwa road that was declared opened by Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai in 2016.
He said the bodies and injured ones had been evacuated by State’s Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) rescue team and taken to University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) for treatments,
He said that in the Muna Dalti Community, two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives and blew up themselves along with 13 people injured.
His words: “The injured have already been conveyed to University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for treatment and the corpses evacuated for deposition and identification.
“The Police Explosives Ordinance Department (EOD) and other teams have this morning deployed to sanitize the blasts scenes and environs. The areas have since been active with restoration of normalcy at Muna Garage and the road.
He said the male suicide bomber detonated the explosives in a crowded area that killed 13 people with the wounding of five others.
Chairman of Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Ahmad Satomi, also said that the agency had conducted rescue exercise at the blasts scenes He said the state government will provide free medical treatment to the victims.
He urged the people to be vigilant and provide useful information on suspicious movements of individuals and groups of people to the military and security agencies.
“We have recorded about 13 suicide bomb attacks this year at the Muna area. This area is also vulnerable and I advise residents to be more vigilant,” said Satomi.
