Borno State, killing seven people, while eight others were injured.
An eyewitness account said the bomb exploded late on Wednesday night
at a military checkpoint near a mechanic workshop, opposite sector one
Military Base and NNPC mega station, Baga road in Maiduguri.
According to reports, some suspicious looking young men in a vehicle
were seen approaching a checkpoint.
They were stopped by soldiers, who tried to search them, and in the
process a bomb was detonated leading to the death of some people and
destruction of vehicles around the check-point.
This will be the fifth attack by Boko Haram and second this week since
Muhammadu Buhari assumed office on May 29, 2015.
Earlier on Tuesday, A bomb blast occurred at a busy meat market in
Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people.
The bomb, said to have been concealed under a butcher's table in the
market, went off around 1.pm local time, killing shoppers and
travellers, a military source said.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the explosion, but the Boko
Haram sect is suspected to have carried out the attack.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to crush the group
which has killed thousands of people in the North-East.
—DailyIndependent
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