Two female suicide bombers meanwhile killed 11 people on Thursday, Borno State police commissioner Aderemi Opadokun said. As for the Borno village, this was the fourth time they had witnessed Boko Haram attacks as of late but fortunately there were survivors who lived to tell the tale after the devastating massacres in the villages where houses were also burnt down.
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Boko Haram has “re-grouped”.
“These attacks are calculated to send a message to the Nigerian government that Boko Haram are not going anywhere”, he continued. “25 people were killed in the bush”, said Bitrus Dangana, one of the survivors.
Adesina disagreed that relocation of the military command control centre to the north-east, as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, has not yielded result. Men were dragged from their homes in the middle of the night and killed. “They wiped out the immediate family of my uncle…”
A resident of the town, Ahmed Suleiman, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone, said about 50 insurgents sneaked into the village and went after the defecting members.
The worst-affected village was Kukawa where the villagers were in several mosques, praying ahead of breaking their daylong fast, when the extremists attacked.
“The victims were well targeted because they were all residents of Gwargware village… who fled to Miringa some months ago to escape forced conscription by Boko Haram”.
A young female suicide bomber killed 12 worshippers when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a witness and a vigilante aiding the military against Boko Haram said Friday.
Gava said his group’s fighters in Kukawa said some militants also broke into people’s homes, killing women and children as they prepared the evening meal.
The four countries – all of which border Lake Chad, a focal point of Boko Haram unrest – launched offensives against the militants early this year as it became apparent that the armed group was making big gains in Nigeria.
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The armies managed to push the militants out of several towns and villages, but the recent attacks show the group to be far from defeated.
