August protest: Boko Haram infiltrates protesters, kills 4, injures many people in Borno

The Borno State Police Command has alleged that Boko Haram terrorists infiltrated protesters along Baga Road in Maiduguri on Thursday amid the ongoing nationwide protest.

According to the police, the terrorists killed four persons, while 34 others people sustained different degrees of injuries.

The State’s Police Commissioner, Yusuf Lawal, made this known while providing a situation report to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri.

Lawal explained that the police swiftly deployed the Explosive Ordnance Device(EOD), Base 13, which probed the scene and rendered the area around a filling station safe.

He noted that the injured persons and corpses were evacuated to Specialist Hospital, Maiduguri for treatment and autopsy.

Lawal, who spoke on police declaration of 24 hours curfew, said several minors, mostly almajiris, between the ages of 9-15, took over the Maiduguri-Kano road vandalising public property.

He said that despite police persuasion, the huge crowd turned riotous, forcefully breaking police barriers, pelting stones at officers and advancing towards the city center.