Fighters from the hardline group attacked Mafa village on Sunday burning down outlets and homes.
Dozens of individuals have been killed after suspected fighters from the Boko Haram hardline group attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, setting hearth to outlets and houses.
The assault befell on Sunday afternoon.
“Round 150 suspected Boko Haram terrorists armed with rifles and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) attacked Mafa ward on greater than 50 bikes,” stated Dungus Abdulkarim, a police spokesman in Yobe State the place the village is positioned.
“They killed many individuals and burned many outlets and homes. We’re but to establish the precise variety of these killed within the assault.”
Abdulkarim stated the assault was obvious retaliation for the killing of two suspected Boko Haram fighters by native vigilantes.
Yobe is one among three states on the entrance line of a 15-year insurgency by Boko Haram and different hardline teams which has killed tens of hundreds of individuals and displaced greater than 2 million. The armed teams have strengthened their place by working with gangs of criminals generally known as “bandits”, who raid villages, kill and abduct residents, and burn properties after looting them.
Officers stated efforts have been persevering with to verify the variety of folks killed in Mafa.
“It has been established that at the least 81 folks have been killed within the assault,” stated Bulama Jalaluddeen.
“Fifteen our bodies had already been buried by their relations by the point troopers reached Mafa for the evacuation of the corpses. Along with these, some unspecified variety of useless victims from close by villages who have been caught up within the assault have been taken and buried by their kinsmen earlier than the arrival of the troopers. Many individuals are nonetheless lacking and their whereabouts unknown.”
A army official who accompanied the military’s commanding officer for Yobe to Mafa on Monday night stated the path to the village had been rigged with explosives, which troops managed to defuse.
“We recovered 37 corpses and introduced them to Babangida Basic Hospital,” the official advised the Reuters information company. He declined to be recognized as a result of he was not authorised to talk to the media.
Modu Mohammed, who lives in Mafa, stated a number of extra residents have been lacking and estimated the dying toll at greater than 100. He stated some corpses have been nonetheless within the bush.