Four protesters were killed at Kime filling station, Bolori Junction in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. According to Daily Trust, officials at the petrol station identified the deceased as their workers and provided differing accounts of how they died.
“As I’m speaking to you now, they are still lying in the pool of their blood,” said one of the attendants, Malam Musa. Musa, who was with the victims at the time, claimed they died from an explosion. “I nearly got affected, but as God would have it, I escaped unhurt.”
However, another source, who requested anonymity, stated that the deceased were hit by stray bullets. “I was opposite the filling station when the incident happened. There was nothing like a blast; we just heard sporadic gunshots and the boys were down. Four of them died instantly,” he said.
In response to the violence, the Borno State Police have imposed a curfew, citing a bomb blast in Kawuri village, Konduga local government area, which claimed 19 lives.
