An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by Boko Haram terrorists on the Pulka-Firgi Road in Gwoza local government area of Borno State, has killed seven farmers in a commercial vehicle.
Sources, according to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and security expert in the Lake Chad region, revealed that the incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, January 29, 2024, when the vehicle conveying the victims ran over the explosive.
The sources said that seven passengers and the driver of the vehicle were confirmed dead, adding that seven others were severely injured.
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.
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 and children in Borno State, North-East Nigeria.
The IEDs, mostly locally made, account for more than half of the fatalities recorded in the ongoing counter-insurgency campaign in the North-East.