No fewer than thirteen scrap-metal collectors in Bama Borno state were killed while three were injured when a bomb they excavated blew up,
Sixteen metal scavengers from a displaced persons’ camp in Bama found the bomb while digging for scrap on Monday in the bush on the outskirts of town.
Babakura Kolo, a leader in a local anti-jihadist militia, told journalists that “The bomb exploded as they were pushing it in a cart toward the town, killing 13 and seriously injuring three,”
Kolo added that the ordnance had apparently been dropped in 2015, when the military bombed jihadist positions during operations to retake Bama from Boko Haram.
, Bukar Grema, Another militia leader said “It was dormant for seven years and buried in the sand but they managed to dig it out, not knowing it was a bomb,”
