Village chief among dozen executed in Nigeria
Twelve people executed in suspected Boko Haram attack as Nigerian city bans vehicles ahead of anticipated Eid violence.
Boko Haram fighters have executed 12 people including a village chief in a remote part of northeastern Nigeria, residents have said, amid warnings of anticipated attacks by the group over Eid.
Twelve people executed in suspected Boko Haram attack as Nigerian city bans vehicles ahead of anticipated Eid violence.
Boko Haram fighters have executed 12 people including a village chief in a remote part of northeastern Nigeria, residents have said, amid warnings of anticipated attacks by the group over Eid.
The attackers entered the village of Garubula, in Biu district, late on Wednesday and dragged their victims out of their homes before shooting them, the residents said.
"They killed 12 people including the village chief whom they shot in the head," Mallam Idrissa, a resident of the village told AFP news agency on Saturday.
The news came as an army spokesman warned that Boko Haram had "perfected plans to launch multiple bomb explosions in Maiduguri" - the biggest city in the northeastern region and Boko Haram's spiritual home - to coincide with Eid celebrations early next week.
As a result, authorities had declared a three-day ban on "all vehicular movement" in the city from Monday, Mohammed Dole said in a statement.
