Suspected Boko Haram member who tried to plant 16 IEDs in Maiduguri market killed

Soldiers in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital have killed a 50 year old suspected member of Islamic sect, Boko Haram who was arrested earlier for planting 16 Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, at Bags road fish market.
The 50 year suspected sect member was said to have been seen and identified by a teenage girl selling kola nut in the market.

According to traders at the Bags fish market, there was a bomb scare at the market on Wednesday and many traders were forced to close shops.
“An IED was discovered and diffused by the police bomb squad and everybody thought it was all over until a teenage girl selling Kola-nut identified a man of 50 years old as the person responsible for the planting of IEDs in the Market.” Salami Abubakar, a trader said.
” When he was arrested by soldiers, he denied being a Boko Haram member but after the soldiers tortured him, he led them to places were he planted IEDs. It was shocking that this man planted 16 IEDs in the market. Th police has since removed and diffused the bombs, which would have caused serious damage in the market. Many people would have died if the bombs were not discovered, ” he added.
According to him, after the suspect had told the soldiers that all the bombs were those he showed them, traders in the market went wild and wanted to cease the man from the soldiers to kill, but the soldiers after consulting among themselves decided to waste the man to appease traders who were ready to die should the soldiers attempt to take the suspect out of the market.