Another Boko Haram Attack In Borno Claims 45 Lives

Terrorists suspected  to be members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram stormed Dille village in Borno State on Monday in a convoy of over 20 vehicles and motorcycles, killing at least 45 people.

Several houses and shops were also torched which forced many people to flee into nearby hills and bushes for safety.

According to one of the villagers, Njimtiku Papka, who spoke to newsmen in Maiduguri said the terrorists on arriving the village started shooting indiscriminately at everyone in sight.

His testimony...

“Some of us had to flee into the nearby hills for safety, because the insurgents do not spare any person in their attacks and killings in the last three or four months. Monday’s attacks and killings bring to five other villages that had been attacked by Boko Haram gunmen, without being arrested by the military or police since January.

“We were caught unawares by the gunmen’s dawn attacks, because most of us were asleep but we were woken up by the chant of God is great in Arabic and sporadic gunshots. They also burnt down our houses and shops with petrol bombs.”

Another villager and a member of the vigilante group, Amos Yohanna, added on Monday that more people were coming down from the hills, while the ones that fled into nearby bushes had converged on the market square, before they fled to Lassa about 20 kilometres away to safety.

He also said that two hours after the attack, a fighter jet flew in and hovered for half an hour, to probably track the fleeing insurgents into the forest.

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