Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect have attacked
Kwajafa village in Borno State killing 24 persons and
injuring over a dozen others, a security source has
revealed.
They also set the village mosque on fire.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said
the insurgents stormed the village on Sunday evening.
He said, “The insurgents who rode to the town in
Volkswagen Golf cars on Sunday evening, told the villagers
that they were there to preach. They however opened fire
on the people as soon as they gathered an appreciable
number of the villagers in the village square.”
He lamented that some of the residents who were in a
mosque at the time of the attack were not spared as the
insurgents set them ablaze.
He said mostly killed were those who could not immediately
decipher that the disguised preachers were Boko Haram
members on a deadly mission.
A nurse at the General Hospital, Biu, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity, said some injured persons were
brought to the hospital from Kwajafa, some 35 kilometres
away for treatment.
The medical worker added that some of the injured persons
were treated in other health facilities in Kwajafa.
It will be recalled that Kwajafa, which is about 220
kilometres from Maiduguri, has witnessed two major Boko
Haram attacks in the past.
Investigations revealed that past attacks forced people to
flee the village but some of them returned after peace
returned to the community.
Meanwhile, the Borno State Accountant-General, Hajiya
Mairo Bunu, on Monday appealed to donor agencies to
mobilise support for the rehabilitation of victims of Boko
Haram insurgency in the state.
Bunu made the appeal when she presented some relief
materials to Governor Kashim Shettima for the victims.
She said the Boko Haram insurgency had resulted in mass
destruction of infrastructure which might be difficult to
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