Boko Haram
A Police Inspector and two of his friends yesterday became the latest casualties of the fundamentalist Boko Haram onslaught in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The sect had on Saturday opened fire on a Joint Task Force (JTF) team along the Abagannaram/Railway Quarters in Maiduguri, leaving no fewer than 10 people dead.
After a gunfight between the sect and the military between 5:30pm and 7:15pm, the JTF claimed three members of the sect were killed.
Also during the Saturday siege, the sect members were said to have brought a rocket launcher which they used in attacking Lamisula Police Station.
Many residents, who were caught up by the curfew, passed the night on the road.
About 10 explosions were heard across the metropolis. Some policemen were reported killed and injured in the gun duel between the JTF and the fundamentalists.
On yesterday’s attack, JTF spokesman Lt.-Col. Sagir Musa, said three persons, including a retired police inspector and two of his friends, were shot dead by the militants.
Lt.-Col. Musa said: “Some suspected members of Boko Haram on a Keke NAPEP (tricycle) attacked one of the JTF, Operation Restore Order 1, location at Dala Kafanti in Maiduguri city. The attack was repelled, with the sect members retreated through narrow paths to different locations.
“They later reorganised and shot at a retired police inspector and two of his friends, right in front of his house.”
Lt.-Col. Musa said after the incident, which occurred at about 1:45pm, the area was cordoned off and searched, but no culprit was arrested and no weapon was recovered.
Normalcy has since been restored to the area.
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