14 Killed In Fresh Boko Haram Attack In Bama Town

No fewer than 14 people have been killed while nine others sustained various degrees of injury when suspected Boko Haram sect attacked Bama local government area of Borno State in the early hours of Sunday.

 This attack makes it the fourth early morning attack on Muslims observing Subh prayers in the mosque and is believed to be in retaliation of the purported killing of the sect’s leader by the Joint Military Task Force (JTF).

Bama is about 67 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital, and a stronghold of Boko Haram and had witnessed series of attacks and killings. The last episode was when some armed terrorists launched  coordinated attacks on mobile police barracks and some military posts, which led to the death of the sect’s  top commander, Momodu Bama, who had a bounty of N25 million on his head.

Similarly, the sect’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, was killed in an exchange of gun battle with security agents.

The chairman of the council, Alhaji Baba Shehu Gulumba, who confirmed the attack in an interview with LEADERSHIP on Monday in Maiduguri said he had attended the funeral of 13 of the victims in Bama yesterday morning but could not attend the other one “because he was buried today (yesterday) in Maiduguri after he died from his wounds after being admitted at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH)”.


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