For the first time
in history, some gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect has launched
another attack yesterday in the peaceful loving Damasak, the
headquarters of Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno State, killing
two Bakers, one of them an indegene of Michika Council area of
Adamawa State and an Igbo man and two others suspected to be
Immigration and Custom officers.
Damasak is a boarder town with Niger Republic and about 120 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the state capital.
This development is coming barely two weeks when Governor Kashim Shettima visited some communities in the area which were ravaged by flood, and almost 24 hours after one of their own who also hail from Damasak, the Chief of Staff, Government House Maiduguri, Alhaji Abu Kyari paid the affected Communities a sympathy visit two days ago.
We gathered that the gunmen numbering about six came in a Jeep at about 7am yesterday and opened fire at their victims before they fled without being arrested.
When contacted on phone, the Police Commissioner, Mr. Abdullahi Yuguda could not be reached, but the Information Officer of the Council, Mallam Babagana Mustapha told Saturday Vanguard that, six gunmen suspected to be terrorists laid ambush to Damasak on yesterday morning, killing two Michika boys, one Igbo man and two security men suspected to be an Immigration and Custom officers.
Mustapha said, "it is unfortunate that since 2009 when the Boko Haram insurgency started in Borno, we in Damasak have never witnessed any attack, only to wake up today and started hearing the sounds of gunshots killing five people," he regretted.
As at the time of filing in this report, the Information Officer said, they are working assiduously to compile all information related to the attack.
Damasak is a boarder town with Niger Republic and about 120 kilometres away from Maiduguri, the state capital.
This development is coming barely two weeks when Governor Kashim Shettima visited some communities in the area which were ravaged by flood, and almost 24 hours after one of their own who also hail from Damasak, the Chief of Staff, Government House Maiduguri, Alhaji Abu Kyari paid the affected Communities a sympathy visit two days ago.
We gathered that the gunmen numbering about six came in a Jeep at about 7am yesterday and opened fire at their victims before they fled without being arrested.
When contacted on phone, the Police Commissioner, Mr. Abdullahi Yuguda could not be reached, but the Information Officer of the Council, Mallam Babagana Mustapha told Saturday Vanguard that, six gunmen suspected to be terrorists laid ambush to Damasak on yesterday morning, killing two Michika boys, one Igbo man and two security men suspected to be an Immigration and Custom officers.
Mustapha said, "it is unfortunate that since 2009 when the Boko Haram insurgency started in Borno, we in Damasak have never witnessed any attack, only to wake up today and started hearing the sounds of gunshots killing five people," he regretted.
As at the time of filing in this report, the Information Officer said, they are working assiduously to compile all information related to the attack.
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