At least eight people were killed after a bus travelling along the Maiduguri-Damboa road in Nigeria's northeast Borno state on Saturday (April 12) detonated a landmine, security sources and travellers said.
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00:00At least eight people were killed when a bus traveling along the Maiduguri-Damboa Road in Borno State on Saturday detonated a landmine.
00:10Landmines are common in the Northeast region, where the Islamist group Boko Haram frequently launches attacks on security facilities in civilian communities and has kidnapped hundreds of schoolchildren in the past.
00:24According to Borno State Governor Babagana Zulam, seven other travelers were taken to the intensive care unit of a hospital in the capital Maiduguri, while 14 people sustained minor injuries in the incident.
00:36There is a resurgence of Boko Haram activities in Borno State, and there is a need for Borno State Government, the military as well as paramilitary to work together in order to abut the looming situation.
00:52For the last one year or so, we have not witnessed IED explosion between Maiduguri-Damboa Road, but unfortunately the road was closed for about one month, and I believe this is one of the reasons why the insurgents have decided to come and plant IEDs because of lack of vehicular movement along the road.
01:17While visiting the survivors in the hospital, Zulam said the government would foot the bills of those injured.
01:23The governor urged the security agencies to intensify efforts in combating insurgency and securing major roads across the state.
01:33Last year, at least seven soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in the northeastern state.
01:47These medressions were killed as the men at a man above 32, and their residents were killed after two kelpses, and at least seven soldiers were killed at a large court.
01:55They still reworks with a highcemia, about 24 hours, and a long time they were killed.
02:03The men that were killed, I was killed in the hospital and, and others, they were killed in the hospital and, I said, that the men that were killed by some of these deaths and the women that were killed by the victims.