Boko Haram militants have resorted to other means of killing innocent people. According to reports, they now use landmines and road bomb to take-out innocent people. This is as two people aboard a horse-driven cart were killed in Niger on Thursday, when they ran over a mine thought to have been planted by Islamist Boko Haram insurgents, security sources told Reuters.


As the armies of Niger, Chad and Cameroon step up the fight to contain Boko Haram within the militants' heartland of northeast Nigeria, they have responded with increasing landmine and roadside bomb attacks.

"In Zaourararm, two people aboard a cart were killed when a mine exploded beneath its weight," said one security source, referring to a village about 30 km (20 miles) west of the town of Diffa near the border with Nigeria.