The Media
has received a report from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital that over 30
people have been killed today along Damboa road when members of the dreaded
Islamic sect, Boko Haram attacked some villagers, travellers and farmers
between Maiduguri and Damboa road.
Residents of
Dala Alamderi in Maiduguri said they brought back corpses of four of the
victims who left home early today to attend to their farms close to
Kukwayangiya
village, about 21 kilometres from Maiduguri, the State capital.
Ahamadu
Salisu, a brother to one of the victims told the Media that, there are 8 others
who left with them this morning but could not return.
Also in
Maduganari ward of Maiduguri, residents said, 9 corpses of victims of the
attack have been recovered while at Hajiya Zile, a suburb of Maiduguri,
residents said 5 corpses were brought and have been buried.
Wife of one
of the victims of the attacked farmers at Maduganari ward, Aisha Waziri told
newsmen on Saturday that more than 30 farmers were killed when the terrorists
attacked travellers.
According to
Aisha, the attackers also burnt down some villages along the road.
A resident
of Abuja Sharaton told the Media that, soldiers have brought more corpses at
Abuja Sharaton where one of the victims an unidentified person, who was hired
to work on a farm for an old lady in the area also fall victim.
“There is
currently argument ongoing between the soldiers and the lady, as the soldiers
are asking the lady to bury the corpse since he was hired to work for her. But
the lady was insisting that she only hired him and did not know the whereabouts
of the family, as such it is the responsibility of the soldiers to take the
corpse to the hospital and look for his family,” he said.
It was also
gathered that many of the farmers affected were hired workers and IDPs who were
living at the Bakassi IDPs camp in Maiduguri, who are mostly from Monguno and
other villages in northern Borno.
The Military
and the Police in Maiduguri are yet to make an official statement on this
latest attack as at the time of filing this report even as residents in
Maduganari, Kulolori, Bakassi IDP camp and Hajiya zille are burying their
corpses.
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