Soldier Shoots Self Dead over Boko Haram Killing of Parents, Children in Yobe

A Corporal in the Nigerian Army (name withheld) formerly serving with the Joint Task Force, JTF, in Rivers State on Wednesday shot and killed himself in what his colleagues described as suicide over Boko Haram members gruesome murder of his parents and two children in Yobe State, North-Eastern Nigeria.

The soldier according to source was attached to the Abonima Command of the JTF, who are in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria to check the tide of various organized crimes in the area, including kidnappings, crude oil bunkering among others.

The dead soldier according to the source received the news of the killings of his immediate family members Tuesday through a relation  based in Damaturu, Yobe State capital.