The Police Command in Borno on Wednesday confirmed that 19 people were killed in the latest deadly Boko Haram attacks in Maiduguri in Nigeria’s troubled North East.

The attacks, which occurred late on Tuesday, claimed the lives of 12 Civilian Joint Task Force members and seven civilians, according to the Borno State Commissioner of Police Borno, Mr Damian Chukwu.

No fewer than 860 CJTF members have lost their lives to the insurgency in Borno since 2014.