Football fans feared dead after explosion rocks football viewing centre in Maidugri

According to Vangard,

A twin explosion, Saturday evening, rocked a football viewing centre

in Ajilari ward, Jere Council area of Maiduguri, the Borno state

capital killing several football fans.

The Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), said to have been planted by

suspected Boko Haram terrorists at the viewing centre in Ajilari

Railway Cross, exploded at about 6pm, killing many fans, while

several others sustained injured.

A residents of Ajilari told our Correspondent that,

"Some suspected terrorists in two Toyota Hilux which normally went

along the streets of Maiduguri streets selling firewood disguised

themselves as firewood sellers and on reaching their target point,

they detonated the explosion close to the viewing centre, a situation

that caused the lost of many people's lives, living others seriously

injured"

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