News: Boko Haram gunmen kills 21 People in Yobe village

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead 21 people in
northeast Nigeria who were trying to return home to recover
abandoned food supplies, a local official and a victim’s
relative said Monday.
“The men, 21 of them, were stopped at Bultaram (village)
by gunmen we believe are Boko Haram who shot them
dead,” said Baba Nuhu, an official with the Gujba local
government in Yobe state.
Nuhu and Haruna Malam, the brother of one of the victims,
spoke to AFP from Yobe’s capital Damaturu, where many
Gujba residents have fled to seek refuge from Boko Haram
violence.
Dozens of Niger troops were killed in a weekend attack by
Boko Haram militants on an island base in Lake Chad, a
Chadian security source said Monday.
Niger’s army “lost 48 soldiers, and 36 others are missing”,
the source said, adding that troops who managed to escape
were on their way to safety.
Another source, an official from southeastern Niger —
which borders Boko Haram’s main base in Nigeria — said
the toll was much higher at 80 dead and some 30 missing.
He added that just five or six troops were able to flee.
A third source close to Niger’s army said the toll was even
higher, at “100 soldiers… killed, 17 missing and three who
managed to escape”.
A humanitarian worker told AFP that “there were huge
losses” at the military post in Karamga, an “especially
remote” island on Lake Chad where 120 to 150 troops were
posted.
“The army is trying to find out how many it has lost,” the
source added.
AFP could not reach any officials from Niger’s army for
comment.
Boko Haram jihadists attacked Karamga at dawn Saturday.
It was also attacked on February 20, when seven troops, 15
militants and one civilian were killed in fighting that broke
out after Boko Haram’s raid, according to an official toll.
Niger, along with Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria, has recently
launched a joint offensive to end Boko Haram’s six-year
insurgency, which has claimed 13,000 lives and caused
about 1.5 million people to flee their homes
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