The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has asked Nigerians living in the northeast region and other parts of the country to keep a lookout for cluster bombs sometimes called scatter bombs.
A statement issued by the Acting Director Defence Information, Colonel Rabe Abubakar, says that the Nigerian Army engineers serving in Adamawa State have recovered some caches of these bombs in recent time.
The statement added that the military high command has discovered that the Boko Haram terrorists in the areas have used such lethal instruments over time.
According to Colonel Abubakar, for easy identification, it is important to note that cluster bombs are bombs that house ‘submunitions’, that is, smaller explosives contained in individual cases.
The bombs are used against large areas containing many targets, such as columns of vehicles, marketplaces, places of worship or large troop concentration as the case may be.
