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BY INUSA NDAHI, MAIDUGURI
Suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram sect on Wednesday evening inaved some parts of Miringa town of Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, shooting sporadically targeting at a Military School, hitherto a State Government’s owned Girls Secondary School (GGSS).
Miringa is a stone throw to Buratai, the home base of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Yusuf Tukur Buratai, and few kilometers away from Biu Local Government where the newly established Army University is sited.
An unanimous resident of Miringa town who spoke to our Correspondent at the time of the attacks said, the insurgents were sighted attacking the said school along a Biu- Miringa- Buratai- Buni Yadi- Damaturu road.
He noted that, many resident at about 8:30pm have fled into the bush as the military troops deployed to safeguard the school engaged the terrorists with heavy gunfire at press time.