A police inspector was killed in a bomb explosion in northeast Nigeria’s Borno State, the police said on Thursday.
State police spokesperson Mai Mamman disclosed this to reporters in Maiduguri, the state capital, saying the bomb was thrown at a police vehicle that was conveying policemen to evacuate bodies of two persons shot and killed earlier in the day.
“The police team had gone to evacuate corpses of persons shot by unknown gunmen around Zannari, but it was attacked around Gwange cemetery walls, as it approached London ciki,” Mamman told reporters.
“An Inspector of Police was killed by the explosive, while two other officers were seriously injured,” he said.
He said the command had sent the team to the densely populated area after receiving information about the killing of the two persons by suspected Boko Haram militants. More than 50 other people, mostly security personnel, had so far been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants since July 2009, when they launched attacks on individuals.
The Boko Haram launched the first attack in the state in July 2009, during which many were killed and wounded with properties destroyed.
The sect’s leader Mohammed Yusuf and his alleged financier Buji Foi were killed in a counter attack by the security operative.
Members of the sect staged an uprising in Maiduguri in 2009, attacking symbols of the government authority including prisons, police stations and schools, leading to clashes with security forces in which an estimated hundreds of people were killed.