The
Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has said Boko Haram fighters attacked a
village in the state and killed 56 persons.
The
governor, who said this during a presentation of gifts on behalf of President
Muhammadu Buhari to parents of abducted Chibok schoolgirls on Saturday in
Maiduguri, said 56 persons were killed in Baanu village in Nganzai Local
Government Area of the state.
Shettima
said, “Boko Haram crisis is a calamity that befalls us, as the insurgents do
not discriminate against anybody before they kill. They don’t care if somebody
is a Christian or a Muslim neither do they respect tribal affiliations. Just
yesterday (Friday) they killed 56 people in Baanu village of Nganzai Local
Government, as I am speaking to you their corpses still litter the streets of
the village.”
Those
that fled from the village who narrated their ordeal to journalists in
Maiduguri however insisted that more than 68 persons were killed in the attack.
One
of the fleeing residents, Abubakar Suleiman, told our correspondent in
Maiduguri that 68 persons were killed while several others were injured during
an attack.
Suleiman
said many insurgents came on horses at about 8.30pm on Friday and went about
killing everybody they came across.
He
said, “We had to flee into the bush and after they left, we returned to pick
some of our belongings and fled into Maiduguri but before we left I counted 68
corpses. Some were slaughtered while some were shot to death.”
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