Bomb Blast Kills Police Inspector In Borno

The Borno State Police Command announced on Thursday that a police inspector was killed in a bomb explosion in “London Ciki Ward” of Maiduguri on Wednesday night.

Malam Mai Mamman, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), told newsmen in Maiduguri that the bomb was thrown at a police vehicle that was conveying policemen to evacuate bodies of two persons shot and killed earlier in the day.

He said: “The police team had gone to evacuate corpses of persons shot by unknown gunmen around Zannari, but it was attacked around Gwange cemetery walls, as it approached London ciki.

“An Inspector of Police was killed by the explosive, while two other officers were seriously injured.”

He said the command had sent the team to the densely populated area after receiving information about the killing of the two persons by suspected Boko Haram militants.