- A Boko Haram attack in Maiduguri left 15 people dead
- The residents complained that security was not adequate
- They said the incident could have been prevented if there were more soldiers
15 people have been buried including a pregnant woman after the deadly Boko Haram attack that took place on Wednesday, November 15 in Muna-Gari, a suburb of Maiduguri.
Premium Times reported that hundreds of sympathisers gathered at the premises of Muna primary school to pay their last respect and offer prayers to the soul of the victims of the attack.
The residents said the attack could have been prevented if there was adequate presence of soldiers in the location.
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They said the insurgents usually sneaked into the community to carry out their attacks.
Bukar Samaila, a trader and member of the civilian joint task force said he was lucky to be alive.
He said: “We heard the first blast at exactly 5.57 p.m. when we were already at the mosque observing the Maghrib (late evening) prayer.
“The second one came almost immediately from the second street. As I was rushing back to my shop area, I sighted two girls running unusually into the community from the bush area. Immediately I suspected her motive and raised alarm.
“One man responded by trying to stop her. But when he noticed that she was screaming and trying to pull out something from under her garment he pushed her away, just before the bomb on her went off. The man was lucky to be alive but he was badly affected by burns on his back. The second girl disappeared, no one could locate her.
“I came back to the shop, but something instinctively made me to close the shop and go to check my family at home. I was barely halfway to my house when we heard the last bomb blast right inside the house sharing walls with my shop. I would have been either dead or badly injured had I delayed for a minute after I made the decision to leave for home.
“When we rushed back we found the corpse of the pregnant woman on the floor inside the smoke filled compound with her unborn baby also outside her forcefully opened stomach. Her eight years old daughter too was dead beside her. Another woman and a girl were also badly injured.”
“Most of us don’t know the soldiers and we don’t have their numbers.
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“In the past we used to share information quickly because we have each other’s phone number. Had we been armed with even hunting rifles, we could have been able to gun down the two girls that were spotted running into the community, even before we alert the soldiers.”
Meanwhile, Boko Haram terrorists attacked two communities in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State that resulted in a gun battle between them and security operatives.
According to Premium Times, the attacks carried out on Wednesday, November 15 on Sabon Gari and Kafin Hausa forced residents to flee.
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Source: Naija.ng