LAGOS: Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram reportedly killed three of its own members late on Friday in the northeastern state of Maiduguri, police and military sources confirmed. The explosion in the Kaleri suburb of the northern city on Friday destroyed a house and dismembered the three Islamist sect members, Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed of the special military unit in Maiduguri said. “We found some assembled IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and a large amount of bomb-making components. It is certain the victims of the explosion were Boko Haram members who got killed while coupling IEDs in an accidental explosion,” Mohammed said. Other items recovered at the scene included remote control devices, wrist watch timers, metallic drums and copies of the Qur'an, he said. The sect converts homes into bomb-making factories for attacks, the spokesman said. As well as in Maiduguri, there have been accidental and fatal explosions in suspected Boko Haram bomb-making factories in the northern cities of Damaturu and Kaduna in recent months. Violence blamed on the militant group, whose goals remain largely unclear, but has called for an Islamic state in Nigeria, has since mid-2009 claimed more than 1,000 lives, including more than 300 this year alone, according to rights groups. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Lt035 Tags: Boko Haram, Bomb, Militants, Nigeria Section: Latest News, West Africa
