A police man has died with another one injured by bandits while on patrol around Kubuwa village in Damboa local government of Borno state.
According to a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer Borno state command, the men were ambushed in a police patrol vehicle from the Biu Area Command on investigation duty to Maiduguri, at about 10:30 pm on Tuesday.
The affected policemen have been taken to the Damboa General hospital and the injured policeman is responding to treatment.
Tuesday’s ambush was the second in two days as a military convoy had been attacked on Saturday along the same Damboa road with casualties from both the military and civilian side.
Earlier on the same day, a suicide bomber had detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at the Dalori quarters in Maiduguri, killing two people.