Suspected Boko Haram insurgents on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital from a cashew plantation a few kilometres from the Giwa Barracks. Maiduguri has not experienced an attack since two major takeover attempts in late January and early February as well as several bombings in March.
The insurgents have been fighting to create a Islamic state in the North-East along the border with Chad, Cameroon and Niger. Residents said on Wednesday that they heard heavy shooting and explosions on the outskirts of the city and began fleeing their homes. The source explained that they were “trying to evacuate some women from a community behind the Giwa barracks when a bomb exploded from a woman suspected to be a suicide bomber.”
One of the residents said, “We were around Galtimari in Maiduguri behind the Giwa Army Barracks around 6.45pm when we started hearing gunshots from afar. The Nigerian soldiers were repelling the attacks.
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