An explosion caused by an Improvised Explosive device (IED) killed at least four pupils of the Quranic School popularly known as Almajiri in Gubio local government area of Borno State.
Alhaji Mali Gubio, the council chairman of the local council confirmed the incident, explaining that the incident happened in an uncompleted building around 11 am, on Saturday.
He said two other corpses of yet-to-be-identified persons were also discovered at the scene of the explosion.
“All the people involved are dead so we can not ascertain what exactly happened, but it was an IED explosion in a house where scrap metals were kept,” Daily Trust quoted him saying.
“Corpses of four Almajiri pupils were recovered and adults, but we cannot identify the corpses of the two adults recovered at the scene, and no one has come to claim them,” he said.
Mali Gubio said that the state governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has banned metal scavenging in the state to prevent the vandalisation of government facilities in deserted communities.
He added that many people believed that metal scavengers unknowingly collected and stored the active IED along with other metals in the building close to the Quranic school.
WikkiTimes reports that Borno State is one of the states ravaged by the bloodshed of Boko Haram insurgents operating across the Lake Chad region killing thousands of locals in the last decade.
Despite relative peace in the areas, there have been still security concerns as the terror groups planting explosive devices in strategic locations to wreak havoc.
