Boko-haram Attacks Mobile-Police Base In Damaturu
Gunmen suspected to be members of BokoHaram yesterday(Thursday Oct 24, 2013) attacked two wards in Nasarawa, Maisandari and the Police Mobile Force base along Gujba road in Damaturu, Yobe State capital.
Speaking to our state correspodent on phone, a resident, Musa Ali, said that the suspected members of Boko Haram, numbering over 50, stormed Nasarawa ward and shot sporadically.
He, however, told LEADERSHIP FRIDAY & confirmed that no life was lost in the attack.
Our reporter confirmed that the sound of gunfire, bomb blasts and the battle cry of the insurgents was still being heard at the Mobile Police Base by the time of going to press. The attackers were also said to have burnt down the MTN mast in the area.
The spokesman of the 3 Division Battalion, in Yobe, Captain Eli Lazarus, confirmed the attack but kept mum on whether there were casualties. He assured the community that troops had been sent to the affected areas.
Meanwhile, the 10pm-7am curfew in Potiskum has been reviewed by the state government to between 9pm and 7am, following a shooting on a congregation at a mosque on Wednesday where a man was killed and the Imam wounded.
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