Yobe State Police Command has recovered 4 bombs, 2 improvised explosive devices, 6 mortar bombs, machine gun and 6 AK-47 rifles from insurgents.
Yobe State Police Commissioner, Mr Markus Danladi, made an announcement on Wednesday in Damaturu that the State's command has recovered four bombs, two improvised explosive devices, six mortar bombs, machine gun and two AK-47 rifles from insurgents.
He said the bombs and the explosive devices were discovered in the trunk of a Toyota Highinlander Jeep whose occupants died on Monday in an explosion from a device strapped on their bodies.
He said five suicide bombers were stopped for search on the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway on Monday by a police patrol team, but they detonated the explosives, killing themselves and three policemen while two other policemen sustained injuries.
'On July 21, a team of police investigators searching the wreckage of the jeep discovered six unexploded bombs neatly concealed in the trunk of the vehicle comprising four 81mm caliber and two improvised. Similarly, six mortar bombs were discovered in the handbag of a female member of the suicide bombers,' he said.
The commissioner, who said the bombs had a range of 1,000 meters radius, urged security operatives on the highway to be vigilant.
He said the police also recovered one general purpose machine gun, two AK-47 rifles and hundreds of ammunition from insurgents who were repelled in an attempted attack on Bara town.