No fewer than 68 people have reportedly been killed by Boko Haram
members in a fresh attack in Dambua Local government area of Borno
state. According to a civilian JTF Leader who spoke with Sahara
Reporters, the sect members stormed Njaba village in Dambua Local
Government area around 5.30am on Monday March 2nd, killing at least 68
men; from the elderly to children and then setting the entire village
on fire.
One of the villagers, Fatima Abakar while given an account of how they were attacked said
"They came to our village at about 5:30am, during early Morning Prayer,
so we started hearing heavy gunfire [then] there was pandemonium
everywhere and gunshots and there was confusions everywhere. I ran into
bush since then I never seen my husband and three children. [I] came
back to our village in the afternoon and dead bodies were scattered
everywhere,”
Not fewer than 68 killed by Boko Haram in Dambua, Borno
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