Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect Monday invaded Shani Local Government Area of
Borno state setting ablaze the Divisional Police Station and many other
building in the town. They were said to have razed down shops and vehicles using
Improvised Explosive Devices and petrol bombs.
The caretaker
chairman of Shani council, Alhaji Modu Walama who was said to have
escaped series of attacks by assassins and terrorists in recent past,
narrowly escaped being killed by the
terrorists who were poaching for him.
They were said to have attacked the council boss family
house in Walama and killed one of his sons
when they discovered that the Chairman was not in the house. It was gathered from sources that the heavily armed
terrorists invaded the town on motorcycles
and bombed the Divisional Police Headquarters at about 2:45pm on Monday,
after they realized that almost all the policemen on duty had fled the area.
They were said to have snatched one of the patrol vehicles
of the police and set it ablaze after they discovered that the engine is not in
perfect order.
They went from there into the town and shot sporadically
aimlessly in the town before fleeing towards Gwaskara village.
Shani is the southern part of the troubled state and about
245 kilometres drive from Maiduguri and shares boundary with some parts of
Adamawa state.
Mallam Aliyu Usman ,
a resident of Shani who was among those who fled out of town during the attack
told journalists that they got news of the terrorists lurking around the town
at about 8am when they were sighted by some women on their farmlands around
Walama, an outskirt of the town.
They had scared off the women from their farms, telling them
that they have deadly mission to execute in some places in Shani.
All effort to get the Police Public Relations Officer,
Gideon Jubrin for confirmation was not successful as his phone line was
inaccessible as at the time of filing the report.
...culled from THISDAY
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