Explosion At Bomb Factory Kills Boko Haram Members

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Residents of Kaleri ward in London Chiki area of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council were again thrown into confusion at about 10:30a.m when explosions were heard at a residence close to the fence that divides University of Maiduguri and Kaleri ward.

Saturday Tribune correspondent, who was at the scene, can authoritatively report that the blast killed three of the sect members, who were suspected to be preparing the bomb for possible attacks in the state capital.

The house, which the sect members used as their bomb making factory, was completely destroyed as its roof was scattered all around the environment.

Also, the bodies of the sect members which were torn into pieces were all over the place while Improvise Explosive Devices (IEDs) which were yet to be detonated were also seen at the site of the blast.

Saturday Tribune reports that residents have since deserted the area following the blast as none of the family members of the sect members were seen around.

Women and children’s wears were also scattered all over the place.

Speaking with Saturday Tribune, the Field Operation Officer of the Joint Task Force on Operation Restore Order in Borno State, Col. Victor Ebhaleme said, “This is what we are faced with everyday in ensuring that peace returns to Borno State. But many people do not know this. Therefore, it is your duty now to tell the whole world so that they would understand what we have to be contending with day in day out.”

He said, “One wonders the kind of technology the sect members are using as they appeared unschooled but dangerous, making an unimaginable weapon of destruction.

“You can see how they are making the explosives and attaching a wristwatch to it as the timer. This is to show you that they have gone far in this their operations, but thank God the thing is exploding with them.”

According to him, the sect members have been going round robbing people of their funds to come and build houses at the outskirt of town only to turn their homes into bomb making factory, adding: “They are the same the people that are going round town to set fire on school buildings of recent.”

“You know, when you come around here, you cannot know that such thing is going on. You see them as labourers working, or people who have run away from trouble areas. But these same people are the ones going about taking innocent lives and destroying people’s properties. Who knows where they would have taken this explosives to? All the same, they are finished, their hands led them to their death,” he said.

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