Sandra Chiefe
Moderator
20 people have been murdered in an incident involving suspected members of the Boko Haram sect on Thursday. Two towns in Borno State were attacked.
It was reported that the attack by began by the terrorists opening fire in a market and killing 15 people in Gajiran Local Government Area of Borno State. They also set fire to a building belonging to Ngwara LGA and a police post. They continued on to a nearby village, Bulabulin Ngawra in Konduga LGA of the state where five other people were killed.
Surviving residents allegedly fled their homes through bush paths.
Gajiran residents speaking to journalists in the state capital, Maiduguri said the gunmen pretended to be traders attending a local market. Some of them came by trucks while other came on foot to beat the security checks at the town's entrance. They then “blended among traders conducting business,” before opening fire in the market, killing 15 people.
There has been no mobile phone service in Borno since the middle of May, when the Federal Government declared a state of emergency across most of the north east and launched an offensive aimed at crushing Boko Haram’s insurgency.
While the violence has persisted amid the military campaign, the pattern of attacks suggests that the insurgents have targeted more remote regions, perhaps where the presence of security forces is reduced.
Despite the attack, this lack of initiative may spell the end of the Islamic sect in their fruitless campaign against morality and man-kind.
It was reported that the attack by began by the terrorists opening fire in a market and killing 15 people in Gajiran Local Government Area of Borno State. They also set fire to a building belonging to Ngwara LGA and a police post. They continued on to a nearby village, Bulabulin Ngawra in Konduga LGA of the state where five other people were killed.
Surviving residents allegedly fled their homes through bush paths.
Gajiran residents speaking to journalists in the state capital, Maiduguri said the gunmen pretended to be traders attending a local market. Some of them came by trucks while other came on foot to beat the security checks at the town's entrance. They then “blended among traders conducting business,” before opening fire in the market, killing 15 people.
There has been no mobile phone service in Borno since the middle of May, when the Federal Government declared a state of emergency across most of the north east and launched an offensive aimed at crushing Boko Haram’s insurgency.
While the violence has persisted amid the military campaign, the pattern of attacks suggests that the insurgents have targeted more remote regions, perhaps where the presence of security forces is reduced.
Despite the attack, this lack of initiative may spell the end of the Islamic sect in their fruitless campaign against morality and man-kind.