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As residents of Maiduguri settle to normalcy after multiple explosions rocked the state capital, resulting in the dead of 16 people with many injured, some of the 47 survivors recounted their experiences to
The PUNCH on Wednesday.
According to 75-year-old Kaka Mallam, a resident of Adam Kolo, one of the areas where the explosions occurred, he was seated very close to a mosque around 6pm when he began to hear the explosions and within some splinter of seconds, something hit him on his leg.
Mallam recalled that as he was about to crawl into the mosque, he felt something hit him again, this time, in his lower abdomen.
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Thirteen persons were killed and over 40 injured in rocket attack on Maiduguri by suspected Boko Haram members.
As at the time of filing the report, a team of military, civilian JTF and humanitarian workers were still combing the town for corpses even as the injured were assisted to hospital.
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Six Internally Displaced Persons have been killed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Damboa town of Borno State.
According to sources in Damboa, the dead bodies of the slain IDPs were discovered at a farm after three days of the slaughter.
They were reportedly killed on Wednesday last week.
A commander of civilian JTF in Damboa, Abubakar Abba, said the civilian JTF were informed of the incident on Friday when it was observed that some people were missing from the camp.
He said, “We were told by the bulamas in the camp about missing people; they said the people left the camp to fetch firewood in the bush and had not returned.
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