Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) suspected to have been planted by bandits blew up a trailer on the Funtua-Tsafe road on Wednesday.
Local sources told 21st Century Chronicles that the IEDs were possibly planted last night to target motorists and security agents who stay at a checkpoint not far from the place of the explosion, immediately after Unguwar Chida.
21st Century Chronicles gathered that no casualties in the explosion, as only a part of the vehicle was blown up.
“I can’t tell you how it happened, no one can except those in the trailer,” a resident of Kucheri, who asked not to be named, told this reporter over the phone. “I went there after the arrival of soldiers, but the trailer was still there. The front part was completely damaged, and some of the tyres in the back were also out of the body of the trailer.”
This newspaper learnt that there were no cement bags in the trailer during the incident.
While IEDs have been used by bandits, especially in the Maru area, this would be the first time an IED would be planted on the Funtua – Gusau road, which links the three deep northwest states of Zamfara, Sokoto and Kebbi to other parts of Nigeria.
The police spokesman in the state, Yazid Abubakar, didn’t respond to an SMS sent to him over the incident.
