- By Halimah Olamide
At least, ten local traders who were travelling in a truck have been killed after the truck was hit by landmines on Thursday.
Those killed, according to information available to the NPO Reports include fishermen and farmers.
Voice of America reports quoted local sources as saying that the victims were he garrison town of Monguno on Wednesday on their way to Lake Chad when their flat-bed vehicle ran over a mine believed to have been planted by IS-linked Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) jihadists.
VOA reported thus “”The vehicle hit the explosive planted on the dusty road around Mosquito camp, three kilometers outside Monguno around 9:30 am, causing an explosion that ripped through the vehicle,” said Musa Kaka, a member of an anti-jihadist militia group that helps the army.
“We recovered 10 dead bodies and 23 injured victims from the scene,” Kaka said.”