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United Nations Condemns Attack by Boko Haram in Borno State


The UN office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has condemned the assaults on Maiduguri through suspected girl suicide bombers on Thursday night time and Friday wherein at least eight men and women reportedly misplaced their lives.

The Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-fashionable, Mr Farhan Haq, stated the UN OCHA “is alarmed with the aid of the suggested terrorist attacks on vulnerable displaced humans in  locations in Maiduguri in north-jap Nigeria that passed off on Thursday.

“while the variety of lifeless and injured amongst civilians is not yet clear, Boko Haram reportedly released a main attack using guns and explosives targeting the custom house web site that hosts extra than 9,000 internally displaced human beings and the Muna garage Park region in which displaced human beings have accumulated to go back to their houses.

“these aren't the primary assaults affecting the most susceptible people in the vicinity.

“The office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reminds all events to the war in Nigeria to make sure the safety and security of all civilian populations as required beneath worldwide humanitarian regulation and global human rights regulation”.

The national Emergency control corporation (NEMA) stated 8 suspected girl suicide bombers were involved within the assault on Maiduguri-Gamboru road, in line with NEMA spokesman Sani Datti.

Datti said that the suspected Boko Haram participants, who came via Mafa- Dikwa street along Muna community on Thursday at around 11.00 p.M, tried to attack Maiduguri.

He said the suicide bombers got here in a Volkswagen golf car, carrying eight suicide bombers most of whom have been lady teenagers.

In step with him, some bombers detonated their explosives around Muna Dalti network, injuring seven local vigilantes, known as ‘Civilian Joint mission pressure’.

Datti further said that a number of the suicide bombers observed their way to an area where human beings accrued with their trucks loaded with goods for onward motion to Mafa, Dikwa and Ngala nearby government regions of the nation.

He said that no fewer than 14 trucks were burnt by using the bombers, including that the injured were taken to university of Maiduguri coaching medical institution for remedy.

He stated that simplest the suicide bombers were killed inside the assaults.

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