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Monday, December 4, 2017
On December 2, at least 17 people were killed and more than 50 injured in the town of Biu in Borno state when two teenage suicide bombers launched individual attacks in two separate areas of the town market. The two bombers were among the dead.
One of the bombers detonated the explosive devise strapped on her body within the Biu Main market, while the other one detonated outside the market square.
This is not the first suicide attach in the Biu market, the last one having been about two years ago.
Meanwhile, Nigerian troops killed three suspected Boko Haram insurgents at Gajibo village in Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State.OnyemaNwachukwu, the deputy director, Army Public Relations, Theatre Command, Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in a statement issued in Maiduguri.
Col. Nwachukwu, said the troops killed three insurgents when a group of terrorists attempted to attack Gajibo community on Thursday. He disclosed that the insurgents, who launched the attack on the village in a Military Personnel Carrier and gun trucks, were repelled by the troops.
“Troops of the 22 Brigade deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole killed three Boko Haram insurgents in an encounter that ensued when a group of insurgents attempted an attack on Gajibo community in the fringes of Dikwa Local Government Area of Borno State,” he said according to a Daily Post report.
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