2 Suicide Bomber Kill Nigerian Airforce Officer In Maiduguri

                          

Two suicide bomber suspected to be members of Boko Haram killed an Airforce officer in an attack on a military checkpoint last Night in Borno state,The attack which took place 11pm at the roundabout that leads to the airport at the entrance of Maiduguri along the Kano-Maiduguri highway.

A little girl who was at the checkpoint survived the attack and was taking to the hospital where she is been treated.a civilian JTF commander who does not want his name mentioned said the suicide bombers planned the attack properly by coming near the checkpoint.

“The incident happened at about 11pm when the curfew hours began to get serious”, said the Civilian-JTF commander.

“You know, since the curfew was relaxed from 7pm to 9:30pm during the last Ramadan fasting, things were generally not as tense in the night as they used to be. Though vehicular restriction is still very much in force, but pedestrian movements are often allowed especially in neighbourhoods till about midnight.But last night, when the soldiers on security checkpoint at the roundabout that leads to the airport saw two men moving from the opposite direction of the airport, they got suspicious and   invited them to approach them. They asked the two men to raise their hands, and one of them complied but the other didn’t. As they got closer to the soldiers, the suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers detonated their explosives which killed them both and a Flight Lieutenant, instantly.The soldier that was killed was sitting down on the media separator of the highway, chatting with a young lady that he stopped when she was seen trekking home minutes before the blast. He was hit by a metal which killed him instantly, while the young lady sustained serious injuries in her arm and is currently hospitalised”.he said