4 suspected terrorists arrested, security personnel, civilian killed in Maiduguri

Trouble again erupted at about 4 p.m. yesterday in Maiduguri metropolis as the famous Borno Express Central Motor Park located beside the SSS office along Kano-Jos road was disrupted when the SSS officials engaged two suspected terrorists in an exchange of gunfire.
Our correspondent reports that the shootout led to the killing of a grasshopper seller by the roadside and one of the security officials that engaged the suspects.
An unconfirmed report revealed that some of the suspects were arrested alive in the presence of people at the scene of the incident.
There was pandemonium as people scurried into hiding during the confrontation, even as the names of the victims killed by stray bullets were yet to be disclosed as at the time of filing this report.
Similarly, at about the same period, two other people suspected to be terrorists, were trapped in their hideout at an abandoned building in Bulunkutu-Abuja, leading to the JTF operatives cordoning off all routes linking the area thus surrounding the entire district thus restricting movement.
The operation led to the death of an innocent civilian during the raid who was shot but the two suspected sect members were arrested in their hideout.
A witness who spoke with newsmen in Maiduguri on the incidents said two AK47 rifles were found in their possession immediately after the raid.
However, efforts to get the JTF spokesman, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, to comment proved abortive as he could not be reached on phone because of poor network service.