Boko Haram Landmine Killed At Least 7 IDP Returnees

                 

         Its been Reported that a landmine allegedly planted by the Islamic Terror group of Boko Haram has killed no fewer than seven individuals
returning from the internally displaced persons' camp in
Goniri town of Gujba Local Government
Area, Yobe State.
The victims were said to have returned to
their homes after Nigerian troops had
recaptured the area.
The Yobe State Commissioner of Home
Affairs, Information and Culture, Aji
Bularafa, who confirmed the incident to
Channels Television , said that the returnees
were
clearing their farmlands in
preparation for the cropping season when
they met their untimely death due to the
explosive devices buried in the farmland,
killing seven of them.
The state government said it was
embarking on a sensitisation campaign to
educate residents of Gujba, Gulani,
Damaturu, Geidam and Yunusari Local
Government Areas, which have been
ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency, to be
careful while farming.
According to Bularafa, the insurgents may
have planted explosives across several
farmlands in their previously controlled
territory.
He said security reports suggested that the
detonated explosive device might have
been buried in the farmland by the terrorist
group, since Boko Haram members had
lived in the area over the years.
The commissioner urged residents to be
cautious, not only on farmlands, but
around their houses as similar explosive
devices might have been buried by the
fleeing insurgents during their stay in the
areas.