Boko Haram IED kills 7 farmers, injures others in Borno (photos)
Seven farmers were killed in a commercial truck after an improvised explosive device (IED) put by militants from Boko Haram on the Pulka/Firgi route in the Gwoza Local Government of Borno State went off.
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency specialist in the Lake Chad area, was informed by intelligence sources that the incident happened early on Monday, January 29, 2024, when the truck carrying the victims ran over an explosive.
According to the sources, the explosion caused the bodies of some passengers to be shattered into pieces, while seven passengers—including the driver—were confirmed dead and seven others had serious injuries.
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, Zagazola reported.
They heightened the 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.
The IEDs, mostly locally made bombs, account for more than half of the fatalities recorded in the ongoing counter-insurgency campaign in the Northeast.