A bomb targeting a police vehicle in a governor’s motorcade and two
other blasts rocked of Maiduguri, but no casualties were reported,
police and residents said Tuesday.
The blast involving the motorcade of Borno state Governor Kashim
Shettima occurred Monday at at the Bulumkutu-Pompomari rounda bout when
suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram threw a bomb at the
police vehicle on the road from the Maiduguri airport.
The governor was returning from the capital Abuja and was being
welcomed by supporters along the airport road following his victory in a
legal challenge to his election win in April.
“There was a blast targetted at one of our vehicles, but it did not
hit its target,” Borno state police commissioner Simeon Midenda told
AFP. “It was a mild explosion. Nobody was killed or injured.”
Residents also told AFP two other blasts were heard in the city Monday night, but details were not immediately available.
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, has been hit by scores of
attacks blamed on Boko Haram, which also claimed responsibility for the
August suicide bombing of UN headquarters in Abuja which killed at least
24 people.
The sect claimed to be behind coordinated attacks in Maiduguri and
Damaturu in nearby Yobe state on November 4 that left some 150 people
dead.
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