Nigeria: Insurgents Plan to Bomb Abuja With Petrol Tankers - Govt

The Federal Government yesterday raised an alarm that the Boko Haram insurgents were planning to launch and attack in Abuja in the coming days using seized fuel tanker drivers.

Coordinator of the National Briefing Centre Mike Omeri who spoke in Abuja yesterday said intelligence reports obtained suggested that petrol tankers will be taken at gunpoint and will be filled with improvised devices and explosives to cause havoc in the city.

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