KANO-(MaraviPost)-Boko Haram on Tuesday night this week slaughtered two people sleeping at a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Maiduguri, carting away part of their frozen fish .
According to a security source , the driver of the truck conveying frozen fish from Kano to the Borno State capital was forced to stop at the checkpoint a few minutes to the closure of the security gates as the vehicle developed a fault .
The soldiers at the checkpoint were said to have advised the driver to leave the DAF truck proceed to town to sleep with the two other people with him .
They were said to have rejected the advice and chose instead to sleep inside the vehicle .
The source said they were attacked by insurgents , who killed two of them .
The corpses of the deceased were deposited at the Borno State Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri, by the Rapid Response Squad, with their wounded colleague receiving treatment at the hospital .
The source said, “The RRS were told about the Boko Haram attack about 7 am on Wednesday. There was information that some armed men suspected to be insurgents had intercepted a DAF truck with number plate Yobe PKM 665 X driven by one Yusuf Mohammed, who was with his motorboy Abdullah Mohammed.
“They slept at the gate of the military checkpoint at Auno . The insurgents came at night and attacked the three people in the vehicle , killing the driver and his motorboy . The other occupant of the vehicle Yusuf Abdulrahaman was still gasping for breath this morning when the RRS got to the scene of the incident . ”
The source added that , “ Abdulrahaman was rushed to the Borno State Specialist Hospital for treatment, the truck , which still contains some iced fish , was towed to Auno .
Attempts to reach the Commandant of the Borno Rapid Respond Squad, CSP Abioye Babalola , for comments was unsuccessful as of the time of filing in report as his mobile line failed to connect.
