The police confirmed yesterday that four people were killed and seven injured in the latest Boko Haram attack on the town of Konduga in Borno State. The commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Damian Chukwu, told reporters in Maiduguri that the terrorists detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mashimari village, Konduga Local Government Area, on May 27, killing four people.
Chukwu said that two of the dead were civilians. He did not disclose the identities of the other victims. According to him, the bombers managed to sneak into Mashimari, a community near an internally displaced persons camp and detonated the IED. He said that the police Explosive Ordinance Device Corps has been deployed to the area.
Terrorism is not strange to Konduga. The area has seen numerous bloody attacks by Boko Haram since the crisis hit Nigeria’s expansive North East almost a decade ago.
On February 17 this year, 22 people were killed in a bomb attack at a fish market in Konduga. It was one of the deadliest incidents in the recurring bloodbath in the town. The jihadists, who are fighting to enthrone a strict Islamic state, have killed thousands of people, ruining the economy of the North East and displacing millions of people. But federal troops have been battling to decimate the fighters, leading to the insurgents attacking soft targets in various communities from time to time.