An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) suspected to have been planted by Boko Haram insurgents exploded on Wednesday inside a tea shop in Kawuri village, killing at least 19 persons.

The incident at Kawuri village occurred three days after some insurgents took over a police station in Jakana, located in the same Konduga LGA of Borno State.
The Kawuri community is located approximately 50 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital. That attack claimed the lives of a police officer and a woman, and two patrol vans were entirely destroyed.

A contact in the community confirmed that the device went off around 8:05pm at a local tea shop where the villagers gathered for night conversations, adding that dozens of others 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.