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Fresh Explosion Rocks Maiduguri, 14 Feared Dead

Scarcely 24 hours after a bomb impact tore through the prominent Maidugiri abattoir business killing handfuls, another blast has been recorded in a packed business zone in Borno state with numerous dreaded dead.

In a report made accessible to Premium Times, the impact happened along the prominent Baga Road Fish Market and engine park of Maiduguri.

An onlooker said: "It happened near to one Maikore Oil filling station here in Baga Road. I can't give any subtle element in light of the fact that we are all running as fighters close to the zone are caught up with shooting noticeable all around. However, the spot at which it happened was generally extremely swarmed."

As indicated by Daily Post, the impact which happened around 5:15 pm on Wednesday, killed 14 individuals with 19 others genuinely harmed.

Another onlooker, Audu Isa said the bomb was planted next to the passage to the business sector and inverse Ibrahim Taiwo Divisional Police Station, when dealers and clients were racing to beat the 7pm time limit.

"This impact was crushing and stunning, as the blast shook the whole Bolori and Pompomari pivot, sending smoke into the air for 15 minutes, prior to the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) salvage groups hurried to the scene to empty bodies and the harmed ones.

"As at the time the salvage group came to the fish and vegetable markets, I numberd 11 bodies dissected, with a portion of the appendages ripped off", Isa said.

Affirming the occurrence, the Borno State Police Command said that more than twelve individuals were executed in the business impact.

Regardless of President Muhammadu Buhari's mandate that the top Command and Control Center of the military ought to move to Maidugiri, Borno state has go under exceptional assaults by terrorist bunch, Boko Haram.

In the interim, the national administrator of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie Oyegun has said Boko Haram radicals will be in for astonishments for brave the determination of President Buhari to end the revolt.

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