In Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State, a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) along the Katarko-Goniri Road killed at least four people and injured at least twenty-one others.
According to reports, the victims’ car stepped on the suspected IED while they were travelling to the well-known Buniyadi market.
According to reports, the bodies of the four fatalities were transported home for burial, while the others are being treated at Yobe State University Teaching Hospital, Damaturu and a speciality hospital, respectively.
The Gotala community, where the incident happened, is located at the fringes of the Sambisa forest where the suspected Boko haram insurgents have been operating for the past one and a half decades.
Eyewitnesses, who spoke to newsmen, said vigilantes and military vehicles had also run over the buried IED on Thursday along the same route, with scores either killed or injured.
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The military is yet to state at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, the relations of the victims have called on the Yobe State Government to, as a matter of urgency. Reconstruct the dilapidated road to avert the activities of the insurgents, as the lives of the communities and the military formation at Goniri are at high risk.
