Suicide Bomber Kills 3, Injures 10

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Suicide Bomber Kills 3, Injures 10

At least three persons were feared killed including one of the suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers that attacked the College of Administration and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum town on Friday morning, security officials and witnesses said.

The CABS is located adjacent the secondary school where a suicide bomber exploded himself and killed several students at the school’s assembly.

Police Public Relations officer,Toyin Gbademishin, informed reporters that ten persons, mostly students and staffers of the college were injured by bullet wounds, as they scampered to safety when the attackers came shooting.

But sources in Potiskum as well as some workers at the General Hospital in the town, which is just a stone throw from the college and where the injured were taken to for medication, told LEADERSHIP Weekend, that three out of the victims of the attack later died. This has not been officially confirmed as at the time of filing this story.

An eyewitness, who spoke with our reporter on phone under anonymity, narrated how the attack was carried out on the college.

“It happened in the morning when the school was not that crowded”, said the source. “Two men, one carrying an AK-47 rifle entered the college through the main gate, and when the security man at the Gate tried to interrogate them, one of them brought out the AK-47 and fired at the gate-man.

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“When people heard and saw the shooting incident, they began to flee. Some jumped and scaled the fence, while others managed to escape through the gates. The man with the gun turned to the fleeing people and began to shoot sporadically, while the other man ran further into the school premises with the aim of targeting a crowded place before detonating his bomb. But fortunately, everyone was running, so the exploded on him without killing any other person”.

No one could confirm if the other gun man had escaped also.

Yobe police spokesman, Gbademishin, said “there was an attack on the College of Administration and Business Studies by two suspected terrorists and about ten persons were reportedly injured, while the suicide bomber was killed trying to attack innocent persons”.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram terrorists are still unrelenting in their quest to sustain their terror attack as they la!d ambush on a police patrol vehicle along Maiduguri- Kano road, injuring three persons including the wife of a senior police chief in Borno state.

According to a police officer working along the highway, “the Boko Haram terrorists had on Wednesday la!d ambush on some of our men who went to Damaturu to pick the wife of one of our Ogas (senior officer) and opened fire at them near a village called Dogon waya. No one died, but two police men and the woman sustained injuries on their legs”.

The police officer, who wished not to be quoted, added that the Boko Haram terrorists had returned to the exact spot on Thursday and la!d ambush on passenger vehicles where they succeeded in injuring yet another set of travelers.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr. Marcus Danladi, has confirmed that two people suspected to be Boko Haram members have been arrested, following the bomb explosion in the college

Military Recovers Boko Haram Video of ‘Heinous Crimes’
Meanwhile, the Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that troops of the Nigerian Army have recovered video recordings of the heinous acts perpetrated by the Boko Haram insurgents.

However, Olukolade refused to disclose further information about the crimes against humanity captured in the videos in possession of the military.

He said, “It is true that troops have captured some video recordings of the terrorists but I would not want to say anything on that for now.”

Olukolade also confirmed to an Abuja based media consultancy firm to security agencies, the PR Nigeria, that the videos recovered from the sect were being analysed by the military.

According to the consultants said as terrorists continue to scamper following relentless pursuit by Nigerian troops, they have often left sensitive materials including arms, ammunitions, ICT gadgets and video recordings behind.

It was gathered that many of the video materials captured by the troops are currently being analysed by military experts.

Some of the videos included recording of scenes of trials, beheadings, executions, stoning, floggings and those taken during preparations for suicide attacks.

A military source said that capturing such recordings was another major feat in the battle against insurgency as it was a tool used to really terrify mostly civilian population and cow them into submission.

The source added that “Some of the video were meant for release through their normal channels to the public before they were dislodged from their camps.

They also show the barbaric life in their so-called caliphate.”

“The media and the public are advised to be careful in handling or sharing of sensitive and offensive videos depicting atrocities that some viewers may find disturbing,” the concluded.

Since they invaded Sambisa forest a few weeks ago, Nigerian troops have liberated about 1,000 women and children from the various terrorists camps already dismantled.

There have been tales of woe and great distress from many of those rescued from the terrorists about their reign of terror and lately of despondency within the ranks of the insurgents.

When contacted on the discovery of video recordings, the Director Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade said “A number of vital materials, apart from arms and ammunition, have been recovered which are being subjected to intelligent analyses. We don’t want to say much about that now.”