Corpses of 48 soldiers and civilians killed in latest Boko Haram raid brought to Maiduguri

SECURITY forces on Borno State have brought the 48 corpses of those recent killed in a Boko Haram attack during an ambush in Magmueri Local Government Area to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).

 

Last week, Boko Haram waylaid a group of soldiers, oil prospectors and research scientists drilling for oil in the Lake Chad Basin area of Borno State. In the most brutal attack carried out in recent times by the terrorist sect, it killed 18 soldiers, 15 members of the civilian Joint Task Force (JTF), five university staff and four Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) drivers.

 

So severe was the attack that acting president Professor Yemi Osinbajo summoned military service chiefs to an emergency meeting where he directed the heads of the army and air force to relocate their headquarters to Maiduguri. Yesterday, the authorities brought the bodies of the slain patriots to the UMTH in the Borno State capital.

 

Also six persons who were wounded in the attack but escaped to somewhere in Yobe State were later found dead and brought to Maiduguri. Apart from the wounded soldiers admitted to a military hospital in Maiduguri, two members of the Civilian JTF were as at Thursday on admission at the UMTH.

 

Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman, had claimed that all the NNPC staff abducted in the Tuesday’s ambush had been rescued. However, this appeared not to be the case as Boko Haram have since released a Youtube video in which three of the abducted staff were heard pleading on the government to negotiate with the terrorists.

 

Investigations revealed that five lecturers from the University of Maiduguri on the exploration team were killed. Names of three of those who were given as Dr Joseph Millitus, Dr Manaja Uba and Idris Njodi.

 

 

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