The Borno Police Command alleged on Thursday that Boko Haram elements have infiltrated protesters along Baga Road in Maiduguri, killing four people while 34 others sustained various degrees of injuries.
The Police Commissioner (CP), Yusuf Lawal, disclosed this while providing a situation report to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri.
He said that the police swiftly deployed the Explosive Ordnance Device (EOD), Base 13, which probed the scene and rendered the area around a filling station safe.
Lawal said that the injured persons and corpses were evacuated to Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri for treatment and autopsy.
Lawal, who spoke on police declaration of 24 hours curfew, said many minors, mostly almajiris, between the ages of 9-15, took over the Maiduguri-Kano road vandalising public property.
He explained that despite police persuasion, the crowd turned riotous, forcefully…
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