Six Sect Members Killed In Yobe Car Bomb, Police Confirms

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The Yobe State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Markus Danladi, has confirmed that six people earlier killed in a car bomb explosion in Maiduwa village of Fika local government area of Yobe state north-east Nigeria were actually members of the Boko Haram insurgents on a suicide mission.

When contacted on phone, the Commissioner of Police revealed that “it has been proven beyond any doubt that the occupants of the Volkswagen Golf Car were actually Boko Haram.

He said, “The militants truly took off around Fika axis but the explosive devices went off few kilometers after, leading to the death of six of them in the car.

“The insurgents were on their way to carry out their nefarious activity in some major towns during the New Year or the Eid-el-Maulud celebrations and thank God, it ended with them there and then,” The CP said.

He called on the good people of the state to always assist the security agencies with vital information that will track criminals in the state and the country at large.

Hospital sources had also earlier told Channels Television that the survivors of the attack had shortly on arrival after regaining consciousness confessed to being members of the radical sect, Boko Haram.

An official of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Maiduwa town, who pleaded anonymity, had shortly after the explosion, told Channels Television that “the bomber boarded a commercial Volkswagen Golf with the explosive devices from Fika town heading to Potiskum, the commercial nerve center of the state”.

He said that the incident happened around 1:00 on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 with the survivors being the Volkswagen Golf Car driver and one other teenager who have both been taken to Fika General Hospital.

Maiduwa is 65 kilometers to Potiskum town, west of Damaturu the Yobe State capital.