IED event in Nigeria on Fri 2nd August 2024

The Borno Police Command has said that an Improvised Explosive Device in Maiduguri resulted in the d*ath of one male victim, with 11 others sustaining various degrees of injuries.

The Police Commissioner, Yusuf Lawal, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, August 2, 2024, said the incident occurred during the protest against bad governance at Deribe Junction near Federal Government Girls’ College Monguno Annex Bulumkutu area, Maiduguri.

Lawal said that the injured victims were taken to the State Specialist Hospital Maiduguri for treatment while the corpse was given for autopsy.

He said that the police swiftly deployed personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Device, Base 13, who probed the scene and rendered the area around a filling station safe.

However, some residents, who shared a graphic video from the scene, debunked the report of the IED explosion, claiming that four staff of A. A Kime filling station, Bolori Junction in Maiduguri was shot d*ad by security operatives after some protesters ran towards the petrol station.