According to Amnesty International: "One person was reportedly burned to death and 13 shops and five houses burned down by members of the JTF after an explosion at Lawan Bukar junction, Maiduguri, on 22 May 2012 when a convoy of JTF vehicles was passing. According to newspaper reports, after the explosion the soldiers at the back of the convoy opened fire, dismounted from their vehicles, smashed the windows of some cars that were packed by the roadsides and set shops and houses on the road on fire. Ibrahim Bukar Tela, a shop owner, locked himself in his shop to try to protect himself. According to eyewitnesses, the JTF poured petrol around the shop and set it on fire, killing Ibrahim Bukar Tela. The eye witness testimony reported in newspapers contradicts the JTF’s account of the incident. A press statement released by the spokesman of the JTF Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, which confirmed the blast, said that an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded when a convoy of JTF vehicles was passing on the main road. He said the soldiers then made some sporadic shootings in the air and that it was the explosive device that ignited the houses." ^[+]