Update: Borno IDPs returning home suffer landmine explosion

Some Internally Displaced Persons [IDPs] returning home from their camp have suffered landmine explosion in Borno State.

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A truck carrying internally displaced persons (IDPs) hit a landmine on a highway causing an explosion which injured some of the passengers, officials report. 

The displaced persons were on their way from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, back to Gamboru-Ngala, a border community liberated from Boko Haram, when explosion occurred. 

The incident occurred barely an hour after military authorities in Maiduguri officially approved the transportation of the IDPs and food items to the liberated border community. 

There is no report of death in the incident.

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The landmine was planted in the centre of the road and the vehicle ran over it.

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