Boko Haram Kill Over 100 In Fresh Borno Massacre
This was disclosed by a local from Kukawa village, who gave his name as Kolo (a fisherman).
The eyewitness speaking to AFP said, “The attackers have killed at least 97 people”, adding he counted the bodies.
He said: “They wiped out the immediate family of my uncle …They killed his children, about five of them, and set his entire house ablaze.”
Another witness called Babami Alhaji Kolo who fled to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state where the attack took place; said more than 50 militants stormed the village early Wednesday evening.
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“The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshipers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast,” he said.
“They… opened fire on the worshipers who were mostly men and young children.
“They spared nobody. In fact, while some of the terrorists waited and set most of the corpses on fire, others proceeded to houses and shot indiscriminately at women who were preparing food,” he added.
Shortly after some 100 people died in the fresh massacre, the Boko Haram militants gunned down 48 Muslim worshippers in another attack in two northeastern Nigerian villages, witnesses and a lawmaker told AFP
“The Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 men and injured 11 others in the attack,”local lawmaker Mohammed Tahir said of the Wednesday raid in the flashpoint Borno state.
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