No less than six children lost their lives on Saturday after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded near a Qur’anic school in Gubio Local Government Area of Borno State.
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, said the incident occurred at about 2 p.m.
The undetonated IED was collected among scraps stored in a building by a metal scavenger, the publication disclosed
“An improvised explosive device (IED) has detonated in Gubio town, Borno, resulting in the tragic deaths of six Quranic school pupils popularly known as Almajirai.
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“The incident took place on Saturday, January 27, when a metal scavenger unknowingly collected and stored various metallic items in a building in close proximity to a Tsangaya school.
“Little did the scavenger know that among the collected metal was an abandoned undetonated IED, which exploded at approximately 2 pm, claiming the lives of the children and causing severe bodily harm,” the publication disclosed.
