₦airaland Forum

Four travellers lost their lives and 10 others were injured on Wednesday after a bomb exploded at Komala village, along the Maiduguri–Damboa highway in Borno State.

The explosion, which occurred around 3:30pm, involved a Suzuki pick-up truck that reportedly drove over an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the road.

Confirming the incident to The PUNCH, the spokesperson for the Borno State Police Command, ASP Nahum Daso, said the injured had been evacuated to the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri.

“I confirm that the incident happened. Four persons died and 10 sustained various degrees of injuries. They have been taken to the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri,” he said.

Sources who witnessed the explosion also said the blast caused a heavy traffic jam, stalling movement for several hours.

“We met serious gridlock before we were able to pass,” one of the passengers told The PUNCH.

The latest bombing comes less than three months after another IED attack along the same route on April 12, which killed eight people and left 11 others injured.

At the time, police disclosed that the April explosion involved a Hummer bus with registration number Jigawa MMR144, which hit an IED planted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents at the same Komala village in Konduga Local Government Area.

This comes barely six days after a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at a crowded fish market in the Konduga Local Government Area of the state.

The incident which occurred last Friday claimed at least 10 civilians and injured seven others.

According to security sources, the assailant disguised as a civilian and mingled with the crowd before detonating the explosive.

The suicide bomber also died in the blast.

kettykin:
It seems Nigeria is finally finished. I read somewhere that the soldiers that were killed on kaduna and Nigeria were killed on military bases

richmond500:
It's obvious this is political.
Just like chibok in 2014,
Dapchi in 2019
Naira redisign in 2023
An now another political killings in 2027

iwaeda:
It is not finished, you and I are still here, we will continue to call for saner society.

Putindbutt:
Your Bokoharam brothers are doing you proud. Weldone

richmond500:
It's obvious this is political.
Just like chibok in 2014,
Dapchi in 2019
Naira redisign in 2023
An now another political killings in 2027

iwaeda:
The man that wished his neighbour evil, never knew that wailing will not allowed him good sleep.

chiagozien:
But when you people were wishing Igbos evil hailing your Nigeria soldiers for killing their innocent youths, you people didn't remember this proverb🙄🙄🙄

chiagozien:
Tinubu should do what he advised Jonathan.




It is the honorable thing to do.

richmond500:
It's obvious this is political.
Just like chibok in 2014,
Dapchi in 2019
Naira redisign in 2023
An now another political killings in 2027

Safyqueen:
Nothing is political here. Some of us who follows events especially in West Africa knows that boko Haram insurgency will resurge. Many West African countries that has balls has driven out the western imperialistic sponsors of this menace but your acclaimed sophisticated president went and brought them back to northern Nigeria again. How do you see peace again?