Reports reaching us reveal that , Boko Haram disguised as preachers have left sorrow tears and blood again in Borno State.
A military source and witness on Monday told Nigerian Pilot that the Islamic militants killed no fewer than 24 people and left several others injured in an attack near a mosque in Kwajafa village.
A military source and witness on Monday told Nigerian Pilot that the Islamic militants killed no fewer than 24 people and left several others injured in an attack near a mosque in Kwajafa village.
A witness, who gave his name as Simeon Buba said the assailants came to the area in different cars late on Sunday and gathered people to a mosque in the remote village, pretending to preach Islam.
Buba said after they (terrorists) have gathered everybody, they opened fire on them, killing 24 people at a spot while some escaped with bullets wounds.
But, Sahara Reporters said the insurgents opened fire on Muslims worshipers as well as bystanders, killing 25 people in the process.
Reports further revealed that the sect’s members thereafter swept through other parts of the town in a shooting rampage.
Peter Wida, a Christian resident of Shaffa, a neighboring town to the attacked community of Kwajafa, said the Islamist militants killed at least 25 civilians near a mosque during evening Muslim prayers on Sunday.
Some of the people from [Kwajafa] fled to our town,” Wida said, adding that some of the refugees disclosed that the assailants told them that they came to preach at the mosque.
“The people did not know that the so-called preachers were Boko Haram [members]. They gathered the worshipers in a place near the mosque and then, suddenly, opened fire on them,” he said.
Another witness, Ibrahim Musa said he received a telephone call from his village that Boko Haram insurgents had killed three of his brothers yesterday and burnt their ancestral homes.
He told Sahara correspondent that he has been trying to reach his relatives in Kwajafa since yesterday, “but all their lines were switched off. I am seriously in trouble.”
Musa, who expressed apprehension, said he heard that the insurgents shot and wounded dozens of people, were many others were left with injuries.
Kwajafa is about 140 miles away from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. The nearest big town to the community is Biu, which is about 22 miles away.
Meanwhile, the Islamist terrorists have carried out series of attacks that have led to the deaths of many innocent Nigerians in the past, while attempting to establish an Islamic caliphate.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the abduction of over 234 females students over a year ago from Chibok community in Borno State and up till now the were about of the girls have remained a mere speculation.
Raad Zeid al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees official has stated that the over 234 Chibok schoolgirls may have been slaughtered.
However, the terrorist group did succeed in establishing a caliphate at Gwoza, but following a recent successful operation by the Nigerian military, the strategic Borno town was on Friday, March 27 recapture.
