Insurgents blow up bridge between Nigeria and Cameroun

The Boko Haram attack on Gamboru, the Nigerian border town with Cameroun, has cut off the Borno town from the rest of the nation.

THISDAY investigation revealed that the terrorists blew up the only bridge linking Gamboru with the rest of the country when the town was attacked on Sunday.

At least 300 people were killed and the town destroyed when the members of the sect attacked Gamboru on Sunday.

It was gathered that the objective of the sect by blowing up the bridge linking Gamboru with other towns, in the state was to cut off the town from Nigeria. The bridge, according to the residents of the town, who called on telephone to journalists in Maiduguri had made it difficult for them to flee into Nigeria and left some of them with no other choice than to take refuge in Cameroun,

The only option left for people travelling to and from Gamboru according to the source, is to go through Banki near Bama Local Government Area of the state into Cameroun and later enter Gamboru from another Camerounian village.

The source also revealed that 315 corpses were buried from the attack on Monday by the insurgents on the commercial town of Gamboru.

Malam Kolomi, a trader in Gamboru, who spoke on phone with journalists, said: "We have buried dozens of the people in mass graves on. Wednesday and Thursday." " We put 10 bodies in each grave." Another resident of Gamboru, Mamman Abu, who was reached on phone, said: "I believe some people are still trapped in some debris." He lamented that: "The only bridge that links Gamboru from the other side of had been destroyed. We are in trouble."