Boko Haram terrorists have killed 12 persons when they attacked Gartamawa community in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State
Chibok LGA is 125 kilometers from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.
The state police spokesperson Nahum Daso revealed this on Wednesday, saying the attack happened on Monday evening.
Daso, said two others were injured when the gunmen drove into the community in Hilux vans and motorcycles in large numbers shooting sporadically.
Though he did not provide further details of the attack, reports from residents indicate that the terrorists stormed the community, armed with rifles, shooting at mourners.
He said “The terrorists stormed the community of Gatamarwa around 5 pm on Monday during the New Year celebration heavily armed with AK-47 rifles, came on motorcycles and Hilux vans and opened fire on mourners returning from Gatamarwa.
“They later attacked another Tsiha community near Shikarkir and killed three people and abducted a young lady burning houses and looting their foodstuffs,” the source said.
The attack on Monday is coming about a month after four electric towers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway were destroyed by the terrorists 11 months after power was restored to Maiduguri after a similar attack in 2021.
The outlawed organization has been attacking in the last two years beyond their stronghold in northeast Borno State, the heart of the country’s 14-year-long Islamist militant conflict.
They have killed 76 farmers from Zabarmari in nearby Koshobe village — a massacre that set a new standard of brutality, thus increasingly targeting farmers, loggers, herders and fishermen, accusing them of spying and passing information to the military and militia fighting them.
Despite the decrease in attacks from the militants in Nigeria’s northeast, they still raid rural areas, hit military bases and ambush convoys.
The organization has killed 40,000 people and rendered around two million homeless in the northeast since it erupted in 2009, according to the UN.
