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Gunmen Kill Bridegroom, Guest At Wedding Ceremony

December 4, 2011

Unknown gunmen in Maiduguri stormed  the venue of the wedding ceremony on Saturday of 30-year-old Maduga Borikmen and shot him dead.

It was gathered that stray bullets also hit one person and injured two others on the occasion.

According to an eye witness, who pleaded anonymity, three assailants arrived at the scene in a golf car.

The gunmen, suspected to be members of the Boko Haram, alighted from the car with AK47 riffles. They went straight to the bridegroom, opened fire on him and drove off.

Borikmen was a former councillor from Shehuri North under Lamisula ward in the state capital and currently the Chairman of Borno ex-councillors forum.

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The state spokesman of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Lt.-Col. Hassan Mohammed, confirmed the incident, saying that the body of the victim had been evacuated.

“The two dead bodies recovered from the scene have been deposited at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), while those injured are receiving treatment in the medical centre,” he added

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