Boko Haram was on Sunday blamed for an attack on motorists in Monguno, Borno state which left one person dead and underlined the Islamist group’s continuing security threat to civilians. Gunmen on Saturday opened fire on a convoy of vehicles travelling to the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, from the garrison town of Monguno, 140 kilometres (about 85 miles) to the northeast. “They shot dead a driver and injured two women and a child travelling with him,” said bus driver Kabir Hassan, who arrived at the scene shortly after the attack.
The victims were heading to Maiduguri to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha on Monday and the vehicles included traders in a pick-up truck packed with rams for the annual ritual sacrifice. The traders abandoned their animals when the shooting started and the rams were seized by the rebels, said driver Abba Gana, who gave a similar toll of death and injuries. A car abandoned by fleeing travellers was torched in the attack, and the wounded taken to a hospital in Maiduguri for treatment, Hassan and Gana said.
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