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Nigeria: With 158 Killed, FG Sends More Troops to Tackle Boko Haram
Members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect struck at the weekend in eight villages in Adamawa and Borno States, killing over 158 people. The attacks, which happened on Saturday night, have forced about 100,000 residents of the villages to flee over fears that the insurgents could come again to kill more people.
However, the federal government in a bid to stem the tide of the attacks, has sent more troops to the terror-stricken villages. It was gathered that the insurgents killed over 65 people in the attacks on seven villages in Adamawa State, while about 93 others were killed when the terrorists struck at a village in Borno State.
An eyewitness who identified himself as Adamu Bulama told reporters in a telephone interview in Yola yesterday that he saw 40 corpses with gun wounds apart from those who were killed in their houses that he could not specify their number. He gave the names of villages attacked as Kirchang, Kwambula, Shuwa, Yinagu, Bitiku, Yazza and Dagu, stressing that the gunmen finished their operations comfortably and left without been harassed. He said the gunmen went about the killings without fear of being repelled by anybody. Another source from Yazza village said he saw corpses of about 25 persons, adding that he and others narrowly escaped the gunmen when they attacked their village.
Chairman of Madgali Local Government Area, Maina Ularamu, who spoke in a telephone interview, confirmed the attacks. He said: "I am in Abuja but I have received a report that more than 10,000 people have trooped into Gulak town and many of them are stranded on the streets because the houses that accommodated them were occupied and there was no more space. I have just given an instruction that a primary school be opened for them." He however said he could not give the exact death toll from the attacks because he was in Abuja on an official assignment. His Adviser on Security Matters, Walkari Umaru, said thousands of people from Izzghe and others villagers were in Gulak, expressing fear that their number could outstretch resources.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201402170785.html
However, the federal government in a bid to stem the tide of the attacks, has sent more troops to the terror-stricken villages. It was gathered that the insurgents killed over 65 people in the attacks on seven villages in Adamawa State, while about 93 others were killed when the terrorists struck at a village in Borno State.
An eyewitness who identified himself as Adamu Bulama told reporters in a telephone interview in Yola yesterday that he saw 40 corpses with gun wounds apart from those who were killed in their houses that he could not specify their number. He gave the names of villages attacked as Kirchang, Kwambula, Shuwa, Yinagu, Bitiku, Yazza and Dagu, stressing that the gunmen finished their operations comfortably and left without been harassed. He said the gunmen went about the killings without fear of being repelled by anybody. Another source from Yazza village said he saw corpses of about 25 persons, adding that he and others narrowly escaped the gunmen when they attacked their village.
Chairman of Madgali Local Government Area, Maina Ularamu, who spoke in a telephone interview, confirmed the attacks. He said: "I am in Abuja but I have received a report that more than 10,000 people have trooped into Gulak town and many of them are stranded on the streets because the houses that accommodated them were occupied and there was no more space. I have just given an instruction that a primary school be opened for them." He however said he could not give the exact death toll from the attacks because he was in Abuja on an official assignment. His Adviser on Security Matters, Walkari Umaru, said thousands of people from Izzghe and others villagers were in Gulak, expressing fear that their number could outstretch resources.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201402170785.html