Boko Haram kill prison guard, bombed vehicle in Borno

A prison guard with Nigeria Prison Services (NPS) in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital was on Thursday shot and killed by three suspected Boko Haram gunmen, and bombed the Sports Utility

Vehicle (SUV) he was returning in with children from Innovative Primary school of Bolori ward.

The suspects, according to an eyewitness, evacuated three children from the prison guard’s vehicle, before detonating the bomb on the SUV and set it ablaze and fled on a motorcycle to the neighbouring wards of Pompomari and Bulunkutu wards.

Confirming the killing and bombing of prison guard and vehicle, the state’s comptroller of prisons, Usman Maina Kaina said: “Yes, it has happened today at about 12.45pm. I received a distress call from one of our officers on field that three suspected Islamists sect members on a motorcycle shot and killed our prison guard, while returning from school with three children. After killing him, they set the vehicle ablaze by bombing it after evacuating the children.”

He said the prison guard was trailed right from the office on Kashim Ibrahim Road to the Innovative Nursery/Primary School in Bolori ward, before the feared Islamists gunmen and bombers killed him along with the destruction of vehicle by 1pm.

The police also told The Guardian that there was a distress call from the Ibrahim Taiwo Divisional Police station, confirm that one of the prison guards was shot and killed while returning from school with his children to the house on Thursday.

Spokesman of the Borno state police command, Abdullahi Lawal said that the killing of the prison guard brings to four the total number prison officials killed this month in the serial attacks and killings by suspected Islamists gunmen and bombers.