A fighter jet operated by the Nigerian Air Force has mistakenly dropped a bomb on a Nigerian community in the Lake Chad region, the AFP reported on Tuesday in yet another costly glitch with military strike precisions.

At least 20 people, said to be fishermen, were killed in the airstrike that occurred on Sunday in Kwatar Daban Masara, the French newswire reported on Tuesday morning saying information about the tragedy had been slow to circulate due to obsolete communications infrastructure in the area.

Locals said the community was about 50 kilometres from Borno capital and Boko Haram heartland Maiduguri.

The attack came barely two weeks after the Nigerian military bombed a community in Yobe, also in Nigeria’s war-ravaged North-East, killing at least 12 people and wounding many.

The Nigerian Air Force initially denied the report that it dropped a bomb on Buwari village as false, but later owned up and promised an investigation after Governor Mai Mala Buni publicly acknowledged the incident and commiserated with victims.

A spokesman for the Nigerian Air Force did not immediately return a request seeking comments from Peoples Gazette about the attack on Tuesday morning.

The Nigerian military has been conducting air raids across the region since 2009 when Boko Haram insurgents launched attacks against the state. In 2017, an air force pilot dropped a bomb on a village in Rann, Borno, killing dozens of civilians.

The military apologised and promised a thorough investigation but did not make its findings public four years on.

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Next news please

Hope these civilian bombings aren't lies to water down the tempo of the airstrikes against dem bad elements?

Take cover whenever you see Nigerian Airforce, it could either be for you or against you

Sometimes, I just wish that they will send all our air Force personnel to Afghanistan, and evacuate all the civilians in the country, so that the airforce will face Taliban, let them use their expertise to mistakenly bomb taliban. Nonsense and Buhari.

Maxymilliano:


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OMG What a nation are we, innocents dying for sins of sinners!

Many things that can kill you in Nigeria:

1. Bandits
2. Military
3. Police
4. Big men
5. Rat
6. Mosquito
7. Electric pole
8. Suya
9. Education System
10. Being a Student of UniHome
11. Accident
12. Trekking
13. Village people.
14. Neighbours.
15. Friends.
16. Can you do me a favour gender.
17. Ndi I will get back to you.
18. Okrika cloth.
19. Designers.
20. Nothing. (Nothing can kill you too).
21. Being wealthy.
22. Being poor.
23: Ndi I decree and declare.
24: Traveling.
25. Lying.
26: Being truthful.
27. Trying to die before they kill you.
28. Freelancing indoor.
29. EFCC.
30. “Can you be my girlfriend?”

If Borno is the Nigerian branch of the Talibans, afgan nothing to say anymore!


What else?


I can't can anymore.

At least 20 people, said to be fishermen, were killed in the airstrike that occurred on Sunday in Kwatar Daban Masara

Unprofessionalism at its peak, imagine 20 innocent souls gone without committing any crime instead of mistakenly redirecting the airstrikes to Abuja, the seat of government

How are we sure Boko Haram doesn't already have an Airforce operating here ...since Buhari came to power our Airforce has hit more wrong targets than they have hit Boko Haram

When this administration finally comes to an end the country will be relieved. No administration has kill so many of it's citizens than this one, directly and indirectly they keep killing Nigerians everyday while sparing the evil doers...

Pantami, professor of what again

These are the same people that will open their mouth and be saying rubbish about the south!

Nonentities

You mean the borno Igbo men are moving their business to because of SIT AT HOME IN SOUTH EAST....according to BMC?


The state they federal government are planning to build the largest gas plant in Nigeria?




Nobody is civilian in borno that place is FULANI ARM RUBBERS STATE

How many times will they make same mistake?