Troops of 20 Battalion on confidence and fighting patrol to Dem village, ahead of Mayolope general area arrested 3 bandits suspected to be mastermind’s of arson on Fulani settlement and looting of valuables items at Kpanikwa village in Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
Items recovered include: one teargas canister, two Dane guns, twelve knives, ten bows and 6 rolls of arrow, twelve machetes, two catapults, one pick axe, one military belt, two mobile police caps, and assorted charms, six native caps, one war flute.
A statement by Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, Director, Army Public Relations said the suspects are currently undergoing interrogation.
“Members of the general public are once again reminded to report movements of bandits and their activities to the nearest security agency” he said.
Meanwhile, no fewer than five people were killed and six others injured in a night time Boko Haram raid and suicide attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria, residents told AFP.
On Saturday a male suicide bomber detonated his explosives among a group of residents sleeping in the open in Tungushe village in Borno state at about 12.15am on Friday.
The blast was followed by indiscriminate gunfire from Boko Haram jihadists lurking in the dark, said Mustapha Muhammad, a civilian militia leader in the area.
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“Five people have been killed and six others injured in the attack,” Muhammad said by telephone from the village, which lies six kilometers (nearly four miles) north of the Borno state capital Maiduguri.
Tungushe resident Umara Kyari, who gave similar casualty toll, said the attackers torched eight thatched houses and three vehicles before stealing about 100 cows.
“Fortunately all the cows returned to the village,” said Kyari. “I think the attackers are not used to herding cows and could not control them.”
Boko Haram regularly uses suicide bombers, mostly women and young girls, to target mosques, schools, bus stations and military locations.
Its nine-year armed violence to establish a hardline Islamic state in remote northeastern Nigeria has killed more than 20,000 people.
Suicide attacks have increased in Borno state recently, prompting the military commander fighting the jihadists to offer a five-million-naira ($13,900) reward for information on bomb-making factories in the region.
On June 16, six young girls killed 43 people in suicide attacks in the town of Damboa, 80 kilometres outside Maiduguri.
On Wednesday, 15 people were injured when two female suicide bombers targeted a market on the edge of a military base in the city.
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