Gombe: Boko Haram carts away eight vans with dynamites Residents of Ashaka, the factory site of the popular Asaka Cement in Gombe State, said the suspected Boko Haram terrorists, who raided the community on Tuesday, carted away dynamites fully loaded into eight Toyota Hilux vans. This has heightened fear among observers of the situation in the North-East, who believed that with such huge amount of dynamites in the hands of the terrorist group, the nation may soon witness more deadly explosions. Boko Haram militants on Tuesday launched attacks on the border towns of Yobe and Gombe states of Nafada and Funakaye Local Government areas of Gombe State as well as Ngalda and Fika in Fika Local government area of Yobe State. The attacks claimed scores of lives in both Nafada and Fika, in Gombe and Yobe respectively. According to Ashaka residents, the insurgents stormed the company and took over the control of the town and they thereafter gathered the people and preached to them their strange brand of Islamic ideologies. They equally promised that they were not in the area to hurt anyone. “Yes, the group came here without killing anybody but they went away with eight Toyota Hilux belonging to Ashaka cement Plc which they fully loaded with dynamites taken from the production site of the company after preaching their ways to the residents they assembled in one place,” a resident said. He added that the Hilux vans were the property of the company forcefully taken away by the insurgents. A security source, who did not want to be named, told journalists on Wednesday that seven travellers along the Gombe-Potiskum highway were killed around Fika town
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:52:38 +0000
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