According to sources, the police were on a stop and search operation at Bata junction on early morning hours, Saturday, when they suspected the car of the hoodlums and insisted on searching it.
The hoodlums, who pretended as if they were going to comply, attacked the police as they fired sporadic shots into the air while escaping.
Vanguard learnt that a member of the gang has been arrested through a tip off and is now helping the police in their investigation
Three blasts hit the city of Maiduguri just this night killing a lot of people, locals and the Red Cross said.
AFP reports that the “huge explosions” happened in the Ajilari Cross area of the city, which has been targeted by similar attacks twice in the last month, including on September 20 when 117 were killed.
The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained but according to an eye witness, Bashir Mohammed, whose house is near the scene, the three blasts happened in quick succession around 8:10 pm.
“We are all confused and people are running helter-skelter,” he said.
Sheriff Ahmad, a cleric in the area, said: “Many people have been killed. I don’t know how many and I don’t think anyone can tell you now.”
Ahmad described seeing body parts on his house, while Hafsat Sani, a nurse at the nearby Umaru Shehu Hospital, said: “There are many houses around the area and the blasts have affected many of them.”
The hospital quickly began receiving the injured while police, soldiers, the Red Cross and officials from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were mobilised, he said.
A Red Cross official said: “Obviously there are people that died but I don’t have figures.”
There was no immediate comment from the police or military while details were sketchy as Maiduguri is subject to a night-time curfew. - See more at: http://www.gistpost.com/2015/10/happening-now-deadly-explosions-rock.html#sthash.CeMw4VJm.dpuf
AFP reports that the “huge explosions” happened in the Ajilari Cross area of the city, which has been targeted by similar attacks twice in the last month, including on September 20 when 117 were killed.
The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained but according to an eye witness, Bashir Mohammed, whose house is near the scene, the three blasts happened in quick succession around 8:10 pm.
“We are all confused and people are running helter-skelter,” he said.
Sheriff Ahmad, a cleric in the area, said: “Many people have been killed. I don’t know how many and I don’t think anyone can tell you now.”
Ahmad described seeing body parts on his house, while Hafsat Sani, a nurse at the nearby Umaru Shehu Hospital, said: “There are many houses around the area and the blasts have affected many of them.”
The hospital quickly began receiving the injured while police, soldiers, the Red Cross and officials from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were mobilised, he said.
A Red Cross official said: “Obviously there are people that died but I don’t have figures.”
There was no immediate comment from the police or military while details were sketchy as Maiduguri is subject to a night-time curfew. - See more at: http://www.gistpost.com/2015/10/happening-now-deadly-explosions-rock.html#sthash.CeMw4VJm.dpuf
AFP reports that the “huge explosions” happened in the Ajilari Cross area of the city, which has been targeted by similar attacks twice in the last month, including on September 20 when 117 were killed.
The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained but according to an eye witness, Bashir Mohammed, whose house is near the scene, the three blasts happened in quick succession around 8:10 pm.
“We are all confused and people are running helter-skelter,” he said.
Sheriff Ahmad, a cleric in the area, said: “Many people have been killed. I don’t know how many and I don’t think anyone can tell you now.”
Ahmad described seeing body parts on his house, while Hafsat Sani, a nurse at the nearby Umaru Shehu Hospital, said: “There are many houses around the area and the blasts have affected many of them.”
The hospital quickly began receiving the injured while police, soldiers, the Red Cross and officials from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were mobilised, he said.
A Red Cross official said: “Obviously there are people that died but I don’t have figures.”
There was no immediate comment from the police or military while details were sketchy as Maiduguri is subject to a night-time curfew. - See more at: http://www.gistpost.com/2015/10/happening-now-deadly-explosions-rock.html#sthash.CeMw4VJm.dpuf
AFP reports that the “huge explosions” happened in the Ajilari Cross area of the city, which has been targeted by similar attacks twice in the last month, including on September 20 when 117 were killed.
The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained but according to an eye witness, Bashir Mohammed, whose house is near the scene, the three blasts happened in quick succession around 8:10 pm.
“We are all confused and people are running helter-skelter,” he said.
Sheriff Ahmad, a cleric in the area, said: “Many people have been killed. I don’t know how many and I don’t think anyone can tell you now.”
Ahmad described seeing body parts on his house, while Hafsat Sani, a nurse at the nearby Umaru Shehu Hospital, said: “There are many houses around the area and the blasts have affected many of them.”
The hospital quickly began receiving the injured while police, soldiers, the Red Cross and officials from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were mobilised, he said.
A Red Cross official said: “Obviously there are people that died but I don’t have figures.”
There was no immediate comment from the police or military while details were sketchy as Maiduguri is subject to a night-time curfew. - See more at: http://www.gistpost.com/2015/10/happening-now-deadly-explosions-rock.html#sthash.CeMw4VJm.dpuf
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