Tuesday, 15 July 2014
On 11:01:00 am by Unknown 2 comments
Reports
reaching us as it that, at least 26 people were killed when suspected Islamist
Boko Haram militants stormed a village early on Monday, in Askira-Uba Local
Government Area in northeast Nigeria and a military warplane opened fire to
repel the attackers, local residents and a security source said on Tuesday.
The warplane
attacked Boko Haram fighters fleeing in pick-up trucks after raiding Dille,
near Lassa in the south of Borno State, for several hours. The attackers shot
at inhabitants and burned homes and three churches.
Most of the
deaths occurred during the raid but cannon fire from the military jet also
killed at least six civilians – four women and two children, residents said.
“The pilot was
just spraying bullets anywhere … People were running here and there. Many
people were injured from the bullets,” a resident, Suleiman Haruna, said.
Nigeria’s
defense headquarters in Abuja did not respond to a request for comment on the
incident, but a security source in Borno State confirmed the deployment of the
military plane.
The residents
and the security source said 20 suspected members of the terrorist group, Boko
Haram, were killed by local vigilantes who fought back, but this could not be
confirmed as witnesses said the raiders carried off their dead in their trucks.
The militants,
who attacked Dille, which is not far from the Cameroon border, were believed to
have come from Boko Haram’s Sambisa forest stronghold where some of the girls
abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok are thought to be
held.
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