Troops avert multiple casualties, gun down suspected suicide bomber at IDP camp

Nigerian troops have averted multiple casualties by gunning down another suicide bomber who attempted to penetrate a Transit Camp of Internally Displaced Persons along Muna Garage, Maiduguri.

North-East’s spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Ibrahim Abdulkadir confirmed the incident, saying the security operatives suspected the strange behaviour of the suicide bomber and accosted him.

He was immediately gunned down in his attempt to detonate the explosives strapped around him.

Abdulkadir added that the mutilated body of the suicide bomber had been evacuated.