Boko Haram kills 7 and abducts teenage girls in fresh Borno attacks

No fewer than four persons were killed, while unspecified numbers of teenage girls were abducted in Bam Village, about 7 kilometres away from Buratai village, the hometown of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai.

Also in Gajiganna village of Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State, the insurgents also killed three persons, including a soldier and carted away foodstuff.

A resident of the Bam village, who fled to Miringa town, Mallam Ali Bam, told newsmen on phone that the insurgents came at about 3:30 a.m and set the whole village ablaze, after killing four people.

According to him, the insurgents also abducted unspecified number of teenage girls.

A member of the Civilian JTF from Gajiganna, Mallam Aliyu Jibrin, told Nigerian Tribune that the insurgents, who came at about 8.30 p.m. on Friday, shot sporadically to scare people away, killed one man, one woman and a soldier and carted away a lot of foodstuff before they set ablaze the whole shops in the village.


Credit: Nigerian Tribune