An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists on the Pulka/Firgi Road in Gwoza local government of Borno State has killed seven farmers in a commercial vehicle.
Sources said the incident occurred in the early hours of yesterday when the vehicle conveying the victims ran over the explosive.
A counter-insurgency and security expert in Lake Chad, Zagazola Makama, quoted sources as saying that seven passengers including the driver were confirmed dead.
He added that seven others were seriously 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.
They heightened 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 North East Region.
