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Maiduguri
– Unknown gunmen on Saturday in Maiduguri struck at the venue of the
wedding ceremony of 30-year-old Maduga Borikmen and shot him dead.
The stray bullets also hit one person and injured two others on the occasion.
According to an eye witness, who pleaded anonymity, three assailants arrived at the scene in a golf car.
When they alighted from the car with AK47 riffles, they went straight to the bridegroom, opened fire on him and zoomed off.
Borikmen
was a former councillor from Shehuri North under Lamisula ward in the
state capital and currently the Chairman of Borno ex-councillors forum.
The
state spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Lt.-Col. Hassan
Mohammed, confirmed the incident, saying that the body of the victim had
been evacuated.
“The
two dead bodies recovered from the scene have been deposited at the
University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), while those injured
are receiving treatment in the medical centre,” he added
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