Nigeria: 63 killed by homemade bombs found at Boko Haram abandoned camp in Borno

At least 63 people died during the removal of a sack of home-made bombs found at an abandoned camp of terror group Boko Haram.

The incident occurred in the restive Borno state where civilian self-defence fighters were patrolling the area when they came across the bag and carried the bombs to the nearby town of Monguno, witnesses told AP.

"It's very sad because most of those killed and injured are young men, with a small 

number of females," Haruna Bukar said, adding that people wounded in the

 incident are being treated at the hospital.

Boko Haram uses bombs and other explosive devices during suicide missions and 

raids in villages across the north east of the country, where AP estimates that at 

least 200 people have been killed in suicide attacks since April.

Unicef warned that Boko Haram's use of women and children in suicide missions is

 increasing in Maiduguri, capital of Borno, and estimated that more suicide 

bomb attacks have occurred in the north east since the beginning of 2015 t

han in the whole of last year.

Abbas Gava, a spokesman for the civilian fighters, said: "This also further heightens our

 fears of the need for a lot of sweeping to be done by the explosives ordnance department

 before people are allowed to go back to their liberated homes."

The incident occurred one day after eight policemen were killed in a bomb attack in 

Damboa, Borno.

Boko Haram is also suspected of being behind a terror attack that occurred outside 

the police headquarters and academy in Chad's capital N'Djamena that killed dozens 

of people in June.

The Nigerian government is being aided by mercenaries and troops from Chad, 

Benin, Niger and Cameroon in its offensive and has scored some successes 

since the military co-operation started in February.

Newly elected president Muhammadu Buhari, a former military chief, vowed Nigeria 

would do anything it can to defeat the deadly insurgence and find some 

220 girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno state, in April 2014.

Culled from: ibtimes
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