Tragedy was averted in Adamawa state on Independence Day as a 9-year-old girl escaped death by the whiskers after she was hit by a stray bullet from sporadic shooting spree by Nigerian soldiers who were on a journey towards Michika Local Government Area of the state.
The girl named Maryam Mohammed was among other pupils at a Quranic school in Shinco ward area of the state capital, Nigerian Tribune reports.
According to her elder brother, Ibrahim, the soldiers were moving along the Yola-Gombi road around 9:00am, shouting war songs and shooting sporadically into the air when a stray bullet hit Maryam on her left leg.
She was immediately rushed to a specialist hospital where it was confirmed that the bullet passed through her thigh.
Ibrahim said: “We have forwarded our complaint to the ward head, Mallam Aminu who personally came to see her and promised to report the incident to the appropriate authority.”
He added that his little sister was now back home and was responding to treatment.
Lamenting this growing indiscriminate shooting by soldiers resulting in casualties on the side of innocent civilians, residents of Yola, the state capital, decribed the soldiers behavior as unfortunate.
The residents, who complained over the latest shooting on Independence Day, said a nine-year-old girl, Maryam Mohammed, who was among other pupils at a Quranic school in Shinco ward area of the state capital, was hit by the soldiers’ bullets.
One of the residents named Buba Ishaku said: “This type of behaviour is unfortunate. I was around Police Roundabout this morning when the soldiers were passing in convoy and they fired about 50 shots into the air.”
Another resident, Abubakar Haru, added that a woman had suffered a miscarriage due to the indiscriminate shooting of the soldiers.
This is the second of such incident by soldiers, as about two weeks ago, same scenario played out in front of the Federal College of Education, Yola where some soldiers on patrol shot into the air few metres from the college.
Adamawa is one of the states which has been under Boko Haram attacks. Last week, no fewer than 500 houses were destroyed in Kubi and Watu villages by the insurgents.
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