Eight people killed by Boko Haram
At least eight people were killed Saturday by Boko Haram insurgents during an attack in a village near Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.
According to a civilian member of the Joint Task Force (JTF) “We recovered a total of eight bodies of residents killed in the Boko Haram attack,” late on Friday, Abba Aji-Kalli of the Civilian JTF militia told AFP. He said the attack came hours before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced it was postponing Saturday’s presidential and legislative vote for a week.
Boko Haram fighters shot residents while two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Friday attack on Maiduguri’s Jiddari Polo neighbourhood.
The killings came after the group overran a military base north of Maiduguri on Thursday, stealing an armored vehicle and torching buildings in an attack that left “several soldiers” missing, two military sources said on condition of anonymity.
The day before, at least four people were killed when the insurgents struck a convoy belonging to the governor of northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, of which Maiduguri is the capital.
According to a civilian member of the Joint Task Force (JTF) “We recovered a total of eight bodies of residents killed in the Boko Haram attack,” late on Friday, Abba Aji-Kalli of the Civilian JTF militia told AFP. He said the attack came hours before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced it was postponing Saturday’s presidential and legislative vote for a week.
Boko Haram fighters shot residents while two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Friday attack on Maiduguri’s Jiddari Polo neighbourhood.
The killings came after the group overran a military base north of Maiduguri on Thursday, stealing an armored vehicle and torching buildings in an attack that left “several soldiers” missing, two military sources said on condition of anonymity.
The day before, at least four people were killed when the insurgents struck a convoy belonging to the governor of northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, of which Maiduguri is the capital.
