Scores Dead as Boko Haram Attacks Various Communities in Borno.

Boko Haram on Rampage.

Separate Boko Haram attacks, carried out this week, have seen scores of villagers in Borno state killed.

 

The recent attack, which took place on Tuesday night, saw Boko Haram terrorists launch a nocturnal attack on two sister villages of Mussaram in Monguno local government. A source said they rounded and gathered up all the men in the villages and opened fire on them.

Another attacks took place at Mussaram-I and Mussaram-II, a twin agrarian communities located about 8km away from Monguno town.

A local vigilante group commander‎ in Monguno town, Maidugu Bida, told journalists that a total number of 48 persons (all males) died on the spot while 17 others escaped with serious injuries.

Speaking on the various attacks in his constituency, a member of the House of Representatives, Tahir Monguno, who represents Monguno, Nganzai, Marte Federal Constituency, confirmed the incident in a BBC Hausa broadcast on Thursday.

“We received the sad news (on Wednesday) that Boko Haram terrorists had attacked some communities near Monguno. Since their dislodgement from the Sambisa forest, many Boko Haram terrorists had relocated to areas around Monguno where they have been picking on hapless villages and killing residents there.

“On Tuesday, the terrorists attacked the twin villages of Mussaram I and Mussaram II in the night. They went there in the night when the villagers were resting after the day’s fasting and assembled them before opening fire on them.”

Not more than 24 hours after the Monguno incident, Boko Haram terrorists were again launched another attack in Kukawa, a town about 30km away from Monguno.

A source report that “the gunmen arrived Kukawa at about 7p.m when the majority Muslim community were observing the pre-breaking of fast prayer. They attacked different mosques where most of the residents were gathered to observe late evening prayers before going home to properly break their fast,”

 

“They shot at them while they were in the middle of the prayers and later set the mosques ablaze. Some of the Boko Haram gunmen also attacked houses where children and women were killed.” a local government official said.