And in the Lake Chad area, three people were killed and dozens wounded in two suicide bombings, a security official said.
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“It was a desperate reprisal attack on the strong, determined and committed members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) and innocent citizens”.
Anka said the jihadists arrived the village in cars and on motorcycles “before they started opening fire and burning houses”.
“In its statement, the military said Hassan Umaru, a Major General who leads operations in the area, visited the village and commended the villagers for their resilience and urged them to be strong and committed in the fight against insurgency”.
Meanwhile, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered from some villagers and aid workers that no fewer than 50 persons were killed during the attack.
The violence continued as three female suicide bombers detonated their devices among people who managed to flee to neighbouring Gamori village, killing many, according to a soldier at the scene.
But as the fleeing crowd got to a village called Gomari about 3km away from Maiduguri, soldiers who were being cautious about letting in suicide bombers to sneak in to the town amidst the fleeing villagers, stopped them for some screening.
A vigilante leader confirmed the incident saying that 20 people including the bomber died in the explosion. “We can’t even pick those ones, they were seriously burnt”, the official who declined to be named said.
A Nigerian military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha Ankas, said that Boko Haram militants attacked the community of Dalori, about 3 miles east of Maiduguri in Borno state.
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Boko Haram, which seeks a hardline Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has killed some 17,000 people and forced more than 2.6 million others to flee their homes since 2009.
