At least 35 people were killed today Monday Oct 8th when JTF soldiers opened fire after a bomb blast
struck their convoy in the northeastern city of Maiduguri,
nurses at the hospital that received the bodies said.
The nurses in the Umaru Shehu hospital said 30 of the dead
were in civilian clothes, while another five wore military
uniforms. Militants of the Boko Haram Islamist sect,
headquartered in Maiduguri, sometimes wear civilian clothes.
"They brought in so many dead bodies. They were more than 30
civilians, in civilian dress. We counted five dead soldiers as
well," a nurse, who declined to be named, said. Most had died of
gunshot wounds, she added.