Maiduguri, – One person was  killed after suspected Boko Haram members attacked Alhaji Umaru Shehu, Deputy Chief  Security Officer to Gov. Ali  Modu Sheriff, on Thursday  in Maiduguri.

It was gathered from eye witnesses that the gun men opened fire on  Shehu on his way out  of his Bulumkutu residence in Maiduguri at  about  7 a.m.

“The gunmen had laid ambush at the gate of the Bulumkutu residence of Shehu who is the Deputy Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the governor.

“ They immediately opened fire at his car as he was about leaving the house,” an eye witness, Malam Lawal Almajiri, said.

Almajiri, however, noted that the officer was lucky to have survived  the attack.

“His upper chest and his fingers were  badly damaged by the assailants  spraying his car with bullets,” he said.

Almajiri  also said one of the teenagers in the compound,  who chased  the fleeing gunmen, was killed.

“Some of the boys residing in the compound tried to chase the killers and  the gun men opened fire on them.

“One of them died instantly while another was seriously injured,” he said.

Meanwhile, Shehu and the unidentified injured teenager  have  been admitted at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

Malam Usman Baba,  the Deputy Commissioner of  Police in the state, confirmed the incident  but declined to give details.(NAN)