August Day 2 Protest: IED kills 1, injures 11 in Maiduguri – Police

One male victim of an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion died, according to the Borno Police Command, while eleven others were injured in varying degrees in a different attack in Maiduguri.

This was revealed on Friday by Police Commissioner (CP) Yusuf Lawal during a status report to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

According to him, the event happened at Deribe Junction, which is close to the Federal Government Girls’ College Monguno (FGGC) Annex Bulumkutu area in Maiduguri, during a protest against bad government.

According to Lawal, the corpse was turned over for an autopsy while the injured victims were sent to the State Specialist Hospital Maiduguri for treatment.

He said that the police swiftly deployed the personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Device (EOD), Base 13, who probed the scene and rendered the area around a filling station safe.

“In a separate incident, a case of culpable homicide was reported in Biu local government area,” Lawal said.

The commissioner said that one Muhammad Wakshama reported that his son-in-law, Ibrahim Bulama, had a misunderstanding with his wife, Maryam Ibrahim, and hit her with a stick on the head, resulting in serious injury.

According to him, the victim was taken to the General Hospital Biu for treatment, but she was confirmed dead on Thursday.

He added that the suspect was arrested and an exhibit was recovered while investigation was ongoing.

Lwal said that these incidents brought the total number of deaths in the state to 17 in the past 48 hours, with many others injured.

“The Borno command assures the citizens that investigations are ongoing and that normalcy has been restored,” he said. (NAN)