An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) suspected to be planted by Boko Haram insurgents blew up on Wednesday at a tea joint in Kawuri village, killing at least 19 people.
The incident at Kawuri village comes three days after insurgents stormed a police station at Jakana town in the same Konduga LGA of Borno State.
Kawuri community is located around 50 kilometers from Maiduguri, the state capital. A policeman and a lady died in that attack while two patrol vans burnt completely.
A contact in the area confirmed that the bomb went off around 8:05pm at a local tea joint where the villagers gathered for a night chat, adding that dozens of people also got injured.
“Nobody can say exactly how it happened, but we suspected that the bomb was planted, not a suicide attack.
“We saw corpses of 19 people with unspecified number of civilians injured. The injured were evacuated to an undisclosed hospital in Maiduguri for treatment,” the source stated.