Nigeria is in for more troubles of bombing by Boko Haram. Residents of Ashaka, the factory site of the popular Ashaka Cement Plc, in Gombe State, revealed that suspected Boko Haram terrorists group, who carried out a deadly operation on the village on Tuesday, went away with dynamites fully loaded in eight Toyota Hilux Vehicles.
The terrorists launched attacks on the border towns in Gombe and Yobe States on Tuesday. The attacks was said to have claimed scores of lives in both states.
Some Ashaka residents said that the insurgents after taken control of the cement company and the town, gathered the residents together and preached their strange brand of Islamic ideology to them.
They also promised the people that they were not in the area to hurt anyone.
A resident said: “Yes, the group came here without killing anybody but they went away with eight Toyota Hilux belonging to Ashaka Cement Plc which they fully loaded with dynamites taken from the production site of the company after preaching their beliefs to the residents.”
He added that the Hilux vehicles were the property of the company.
Also, a security source who did not want to be named, told journalists on Wednesday that 7 travellers along the Gombe-Potiskum highway were killed around Fika town by the insurgents.
He said that the killing came moments after a popular religious cleric and three of his apprentices were killed in Nafada on the Gombe/Yobe border.
Police Public Relations Officer Gombe Command, Mr. Fwaje Atajiri, confirmed the raid of the area.
“I can confirm the attack on the two Local Government Areas of the state. The number of casualty is four while a police man was injured during the attack and he is being treated. Our team of investigators have commenced inquiry on the attack and I can assure you the media will be adequately briefed as things unfold,” the PPRO told journalists.
The military need to chase these guys away, otherwise those dynamites will be used on Nigerians.
The terrorists launched attacks on the border towns in Gombe and Yobe States on Tuesday. The attacks was said to have claimed scores of lives in both states.
Some Ashaka residents said that the insurgents after taken control of the cement company and the town, gathered the residents together and preached their strange brand of Islamic ideology to them.
They also promised the people that they were not in the area to hurt anyone.
A resident said: “Yes, the group came here without killing anybody but they went away with eight Toyota Hilux belonging to Ashaka Cement Plc which they fully loaded with dynamites taken from the production site of the company after preaching their beliefs to the residents.”
He added that the Hilux vehicles were the property of the company.
Also, a security source who did not want to be named, told journalists on Wednesday that 7 travellers along the Gombe-Potiskum highway were killed around Fika town by the insurgents.
He said that the killing came moments after a popular religious cleric and three of his apprentices were killed in Nafada on the Gombe/Yobe border.
Police Public Relations Officer Gombe Command, Mr. Fwaje Atajiri, confirmed the raid of the area.
“I can confirm the attack on the two Local Government Areas of the state. The number of casualty is four while a police man was injured during the attack and he is being treated. Our team of investigators have commenced inquiry on the attack and I can assure you the media will be adequately briefed as things unfold,” the PPRO told journalists.
The military need to chase these guys away, otherwise those dynamites will be used on Nigerians.
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