No fewer than eight persons are feared dead and many others sustained varying degrees of injury when two commercial vehicles stepped on landmines along Ngala-Dikwa road in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State.
Daily Trust learnt that the incident occurred around 10:30 am around Kinewba village in Ngala.
The landmine attack reportedly happened about 115 kilometers away from Maiduguri, the state capital.
A security source disclosed that the two vehicles involved in the incident were damaged beyond repairs.
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“The vehicles left Ngala around 900:am while the incident occurred about 15 kilometers away. Eight civilians feared dead including two children, and several others were critically wounded in the landmines blast,” he said.
A top civilian JTF source said the two vehicles, an Izuzu van and a lorry, stepped on the bomb and nearly all the passengers feared dead.
Recall that Governor Babagana Zulum had plied the route two days earlier when he went on a humanitarian visit to Ngala.
