A total of 65 persons lost their lives and 136 persons injured following the weekend attacks on Dalori village by insurgents.
Dalori, which is about 5 kilometers from Maiduguri, came under the attacks on Saturday evening. The NEMA’s Emergency Response Team immediately mobilized for rescue along with others that include Police Anti bomb Squad, NSCDC, Nigerian Army, and Federal Road Safety Corps and Nigerian Red Cross.
Victims were evacuated to Umaru Shehu Hospital, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and Borno General Hospital for medical attention where 40 persons were confirmed dead. However the community buried 25 deaths beside those that were taken to the hospitals. 136 persons were injured in the attacks.
The insurgents came into the village and started shooting sporadically. This put the villagers and the neighborhood into pandemonium and started running helter-skelter.
Some of the villagers that succeeded in moving out including those in the nearby IDPs camp (Dalori Camp II) converged under a big three where people normally gathered in the evening to do menial trading activities. Unknown to them one of the suicide bombers sneaked into the midst of the gathering and detonated explosive devices killing scores of people and injuring many.
Sani Datti
Snr. Information Officer
1st February 2016
