Kano - Boko Haram Islamists have
killed 10 people and abducted 13 others in a raid on a village near the
northeast Nigerian town of Chibok where the militants kidnapped over 200
schoolgirls in 2014, locals told AFP Sunday. Armed jihadists on motorcycles invaded Kubrrivu at
dawn on Saturday, firing on the residents as they were sleeping and looting and
burning homes before fleeing into the bush with 13 women and children seized
from the village.
"The Boko Haram attackers rode on four
motorcycles, three on each, and opened fire on the village as residents
slept," said Luka Damina, a resident of nearby Kautikeri village where
Kubrrivu residents fled to safety following the attack. "They burnt down the whole village after looting
food supplies and livestock and taking away women and children," Damina
said.
Ayuba Alamson, a community elder in Chibok, some 20
kilometres (12 miles) away, confirmed the attack, saying 13 people were
abducted in the raid. "After killing 10 people and burning the entire
village, the gunmen made away with 13 people, including seven women, five boys
and a girl," Alamson said.
source: AFP
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