The Boko Haram sect had in an early morning attack on Friday killed over 45 persons while also burning homes, shops, offices and
vehicles
================
The extremist Boko Haram sect on Saturday mounted its flags in Damboa
town of Borno state, declaring the area its exclusive territory,
security sources and witnesses have said.
Damboa local government shares a boundary with the dreaded Sambisa
forest the terrorists have converted to a formidable hideout.
The Boko Haram gunmen had in the early hours of Friday attacked Damboa,
85 kilometres from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, killing locals
and setting homes on fire.
Over 45 persons were killed while homes, shops, offices and vehicles were torched.
The gunmen later that Friday returned to launch yet another onslaught
on the town at the time residents were busy picking corpses of those
killed in the morning and preparing them for burial.
Witnesses
said during the second attack, the gunmen did not even spare women and
children as they dislodged the entire town and hoisted their flags
there.
The death toll is feared to have increased although officials say they are yet to ascertain the casualty figures.
A top security official in Maiduguri confirmed the Damboa attack and
said flags suspected to be those of the Boko Haram sect had been hoisted
there.
Soldiers are yet return to Damboa after they were sacked in an attack on the military base there about two weeks ago.
After the soldiers fled, the
terrorists took over the highway leading to the town, residents say.
“There is no single person in Damboa as we are speaking now except the
insurgents,” a member of the civilian vigilante group said.
The
hoisting of flags in Damboa by the terrorists occured as information
filtered in that residents of Dile, Huyum, Lassa, Murtavu, Rimirgo and
some other remote villages in Askira Uba local government area are
fleeing
Your comments!
No comments:
Post a Comment