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| Missing Chibok Girls |
No
fewer than 14 persons were killed on Wednesday in a suicide attack on the
Chibok Market in Borno State.
Also,
five other persons, who had gone to the bush to fetch firewood, were killed by
fighters of the outlawed Boko Haram sect in Jawu, near Auno, a village in Borno
State.
In
the attack on the Chibok market on Wednesday, 30 persons were similarly
injured.
Coincidentally, the market was reopened on the day of the attacks, having been
shut since over 200 schoolgirls were abducted from the Government Secondary
School in the town on April 14, 2014.
The Chairman, Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State,
Mr. Ba’ana Lawan, confirmed the suicide attack on Chibok.
Lawan, who claimed he was out of the town and as such could
not give the details of the attack especially the number of casualties, said he
was told of the attack on the telephone.
One of the residents of the town, Ibrahim Suleiman
who spoke on the telephone that eight people died on
the spot, adding that six more persons among the injured later lost their lives
at the hospital.
Suleiman said, “The market was only opened today (Wednesday)
and the suicide bombers hit the market at exactly 12.54pm. Eight people died on
the spot while over 30 were rushed to the General Hospital, Uba, in the Askira
Local Government Area, with two of the victims in critical condition.”
A resident of Chibok, Solomon Abga, while speaking with our
correspondent on the telephone, said that the suicide bombers carried out the
attacks despite the heavy presence of security men in the town.
“I cannot understand the reason why the government is
insisting that normalcy has returned when you cannot go to Chibok from
Maiduguri through Damboa? The road is still closed because Boko Haram terrorists
are still operating 21 kilometres away from Maiduguri,” he said.
Another version of the attack, however, explained that aside
from the explosion at the market, a second blast occurred at a military
checkpoint in the town.
It
was learnt that a suspected bomber was apprehended at a
different location in the town.
The number of soldiers who were affected in the blasts could
not be immediately ascertained, but it was gathered that many of them might
have been injured.
The Chairman, Chibok Community in Abuja, Chief Tsambido
Abana, confirmed the attacks while speaking with newsmen on Wednesday.
He said, “A blast went off in the market while another one
exploded at a military checkpoint. My uncle and niece were also injured in the
blasts; they are being treated in the hospital now.”
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