Last week, suspected member of the terrorists’ sect, Boko Haram planted an improvised explosives devices (IEDs) under a popular Madafuna bridge linking 185m Biu-Damboa-Maiduguiri federal road had exploded destroying some remarkable portion of the bridge with passengers and motorists looking stranded
Scores of passengers and motorists were killed on the road while many others had been kidnapped in the last two years making the road a death trap for travelers. The calamity of the road had compelled many people of Shani, Numan, Biu, and Tarabato including motorists to abandon the route for other alternative route pairing the state to Gombe state.
The Bombing of the bridge took place around 2:00am when the residents of the vicinity were already asleep.