Vigilante committees prevent casualty in 5 attacks

The region experienced five suicide bombing attacks since 10 March 2016, fortunately without casualties.

The vigilante committees are become increasingly effective. The proof, five suicide attacks took place between March 10 and March 13, 2016, in the Far North, without causing victims apart from the bombers themselves. The facts reported by the biweekly l’Œil du Sahel on newsstands this Monday, March 14, 2016.

“A double suicide attack occurred on the morning of March 13, 2016 in the locality of Tolkomari in Mayo-Sava. According to local sources, the suicide bombers – a woman and a girl – introduced themselves in Tolkomari around 6am. But they were quickly spotted by a member of the local vigilante committee, Massabak Adji, who immediately sounded the alarm in the village.

Immediately, it was a stampede, people seeking to shelter while other members of the Vigilante Committee, rushed to the scene, and began harassing the bombers. At the end, exhausted, suicide bombers headed to two houses belonging to Madi Gali and Mechebé and they blew themselves up. ” The two suicide bombers died without casualties.

“On March 12, 2016, a shepherd named Bahama and 300 cattle head were abducted by Boko Haram members in this locality. Also, at Houmaka, on March 11, 2016, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance to this resort, not causing anyone’s death.

In the day of 11 March 2016, a military truck having on board the elements of the military post of Gouzda-Vreket in Mayo-Moskota, stepped on a mine between Gouzda-Vreket and Moskota without any casualties.“

Also, On March 10, 2016, it is in Achigachia that a suicide bomber that was forced to return to Nigeria by members of the Vigilance Committee, blew herself up in the river that separates the two countries. There was no loss of life.