No fewer than 51 people were yesterday killed in attacks on Borno State villages by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents.
The terrorists killed 42 people at Gurmushi village in Marte Local Government area. About 12 others sustained gunshot injuries.
Most of the houses in the village were burnt down by the attackers, forcing the villagers to flee to Cameroun Republic.
A resident, Mallam Abacha Umar, said the gunmen invaded the village in the early hours of yesterday.
The BBC Hausa Service monitored in Maiduguri yesterday quoted a woman as saying: “I counted over 40 bodies littered on the ground, while the village was razed down completely. Most of us ran into the bush for our safety.” She also said 12 people were injured.
Another resident said she fled the village to neighboring Cameroun for fear of another attack from the Boko Haram terrorists because “they have intensified their attacks in the area in recent times”.
Also yesterday, the terrorists attacked Amuda and Arbokko border villages, killing nine residents.
They were alleged to have invaded the village in Toyota Hilux vehicles, motorcycles and an Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC.
Eyewitnesses say the gunmen came through the 16-kilometre Kughum-Pulka border road at 2am, and stormed the two neigbouring villages, firing indiscriminately at fleeing residents.
“I cannot imagine how I escaped the attacks It was God that saved my life; otherwise I would have been shot dead in my burnt house. Two of my neighbours were shot while fleeing their houses. Others fell to the ground with sustained injuries,” Pirda Takweshe, a resident of Amuda, who escaped to Pulka said yesterday.
Thursday, 29 May 2014
News: Suspected Boko Haram Members Kill 51 People in Borno Yesterday!
No fewer than 51 people were yesterday killed in attacks on Borno State villages by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents.
The terrorists killed 42 people at Gurmushi village in Marte Local Government area. About 12 others sustained gunshot injuries.
Most of the houses in the village were burnt down by the attackers, forcing the villagers to flee to Cameroun Republic.
A resident, Mallam Abacha Umar, said the gunmen invaded the village in the early hours of yesterday.
The BBC Hausa Service monitored in Maiduguri yesterday quoted a woman as saying: “I counted over 40 bodies littered on the ground, while the village was razed down completely. Most of us ran into the bush for our safety.” She also said 12 people were injured.
Another resident said she fled the village to neighboring Cameroun for fear of another attack from the Boko Haram terrorists because “they have intensified their attacks in the area in recent times”.
Also yesterday, the terrorists attacked Amuda and Arbokko border villages, killing nine residents.
They were alleged to have invaded the village in Toyota Hilux vehicles, motorcycles and an Armoured Personnel Carrier, APC.
Eyewitnesses say the gunmen came through the 16-kilometre Kughum-Pulka border road at 2am, and stormed the two neigbouring villages, firing indiscriminately at fleeing residents.
“I cannot imagine how I escaped the attacks It was God that saved my life; otherwise I would have been shot dead in my burnt house. Two of my neighbours were shot while fleeing their houses. Others fell to the ground with sustained injuries,” Pirda Takweshe, a resident of Amuda, who escaped to Pulka said yesterday.
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