Three Boko Haram members yesterday lost their lives when a bomb exploded at a compound suspected to be used as a bomb-making factory in Kaleri Ward, London Chiki Area of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council of Borno State.
Residents of the area, which is adjacent to the University of Maiduguri, were thrown into confusion when the bomb went off and killed the sect members.
It also forced most of the fear-stricken residents to flee the area, which was immediately taken over by security men. Relics of the sect's men and their family members were however strewn about, as the remaining members fled the area for fear of being apprehended.
The Field Operations Officer of the Joint Task Force, Col. Victor Ebhaleme confirmed the incident, which he described as shocking.
Ebhaleme said, “This is what we are faced with everyday in ensuring that peace returns to Borno State. It is your duty now to tell it to the world so that they would understand what we have to be contending with day in day out.”
“You can see how they are making the explosive and attaching a wrist watch to it as the timer.
This is to show you that they have gone far in this their operations, but thank God the thing is exploding with them, he added.
He said the sect members had been going round robbing people of their funds to build houses at the outskirt of the town only to turn their homes into bomb making factories.