Panic as police defuse IED planted by Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents in Borno IDP camp

Boko Haram and ISWAP rebels built a bomb in Dalori Internally Displaced Persons Camp (IDPs) in Konduga Local Government Area, which was successfully defused by authorities in Borno State.

Dalori camp is located on the Maiduguri-Bama road, a few kilometers from Maiduguri.

The bomb fear began at 6:00 a.m., according to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert in Lake Chad, when an item disguised in a bag assumed to be an IED was discovered, prompting inhabitants at the camp to abandon their shelters and run.

He claimed that for nearly three hours, everyone in the camp, including armed police officers, stood far away waiting for the anti-bomb team to arrive and verify the contents of the sack they believed contained explosives.

He added that the team of the EOD later came and discovered that it was an explosive, planted in the camp to cause havoc.

“The IEDs were successfully detonated without causing any casualties,” he said