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Intelligence reports have shown that Boko Haram bombers now visit their targets at home after lacing themselves with improvised explosive devices.
Information reveals that now have a new strategy of knocking at residences of their preys in the night and detonating the explosive once the door was opened.
The latest information comes just hours after four female suicide bombers, detonated explosive devices at Usmanti along Muna Garage axis, Maiduguri Borno State, which killed two men and injured 16 others.
It was gathered that the bombers, ready for the explosion, would approach the home of those to be killed, especially at night, knock and wait for the door to be opened before they would detonate bombs.
Quoting a security source, the report said: “One of the suicide bombers detonated the explosive device close to a security facility in the area.”
Spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), North-East zone, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, confirmed the latest attach by the bombers and said rescue efforts were ongoing.
“Rescue and health workers had immediately moved to scene after the alert. The victims have been transported to the state specialist hospital and university teaching hospital in Maiduguri,” he said.
