Security agents kill two Boko Haram militants in Yobe

Following the attacks on Police and Military post in Damaturu, the state capital of Yobe by men of Boko Haram, the security operatives yesterday confirmed that two of the Islamic militants were killed. The State Commissioner of Police Patrick Egbuniwe who disclosed this to reporters said one woman and her child were wounded by a stray bullet during the operation at Sabon Pegi in the Damaturu metropolis. According to him, “There were attacks on a police and military posts by suspected gunmen, where two civilians were killed in the Sabon Pegi ward and the
Federal Polytechnic staff quarters.” “One block of classrooms in the polytechnic was torched by the Boko Haram members but I must say that they were just retreating and decided to burn the class because anytime you are chasing them, they will just burn what they see around. “We also combed the school and found the body of a Federal Polytechnic security man who was killed in the attack”. He said there were pockets of armed assailants still hiding in the communities in the metropolis, warning that the police and JTF would continue to raid such hideouts. Speaking on whether the police got a hint on the purported text message sent to the institution prior to the attack, Egbuniwe said: “Yes we were alerted that a message was pasted round the school with the inscription that ‘brothers and sister, you have to leave the school because we are coming to bomb it’ but the reason why they bombed that classroom as I told you, is because they were retreating from the gunfire.” He said that no security agent was killed in the operation, adding that the situation was brought under control. The curfew in Damaturu is still from 7am to 6pm.
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