One person has been killed and nine injured after a trailer conveying passengers struck an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Komala village axis in Konduga LGA of Borno state.
Police sources told Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication, that the incident occurred at about 1:30pm on July 2 as the trailer, driven by one Isa Uba, was travelling from Maiduguri to Damboa.
The sources said the explosive device was suspected to have been planted by Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists along the route.
A passenger was said to have died at the scene while nine other passengers sustained varying degrees of injuries.
Makama reported that a joint response team comprising military personnel, police tactical units, explosive ordnance disposal-chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (EOD-CBRN) operatives, members of the civilian joint task force (CJTF), and local hunters was deployed to the scene shortly after the explosion.
“They said the injured victims were evacuated to hospital
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