BY NDAHI MARAMA
MAIDUGURI — Barely 24 hours after terrorists attacked Monguno Military Barracks which led to the killing of 20 people, including a soldier, terrorists and civilians, gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect shot dead a Police Mobile Training Camp, PMTC, commandant, Umaru Ali Jenga (45) and a traffic warden (name withheld) in Gwange ward of Maiduguri metropolis at 4.35pm Sunday.

Gwange is one of the volatile areas which had witnessed series of attacks through bombings and shootings.

The slain commandant, according to an eyewitness, was shot dead by three armed men in a tricycle at his LagosBridge residence, before fleeing towards Bama road where they shot dead the traffic warden at his duty post.

He said: “We were sitting under this shed, when gunmen in two tricycles attacked the residence of the police officer near the LagosBridge. People started running for safety across the bridge, before soldiers came in their patrol vehicles to chase the gunmen that fled towards Bama road”.

He told newsmen that it was while the gunmen were fleeing  that the traffic warden fell to the gunmen’s bullets at the T-junction.

Confirming the separate incidents in Maiduguri, spokesman of Borno State Police Command, Gideon Jibrin said there were multiple attacks in Gwange ward of Maiduguri where a police officer and a traffic warden were feared killed on Sunday. He said no arrest was made in any of the three incidents.