Insurgent invaded
Borno State killing scores of people and destroying houses.
This came as three persons suspected to be members of the sect were apprehended in Terminus area of Jos North local government area of Plateau State but the State Police Command allayed the fears of residents, saying there was no need to panic.
This came as three persons suspected to be members of the sect were apprehended in Terminus area of Jos North local government area of Plateau State but the State Police Command allayed the fears of residents, saying there was no need to panic.
The terrorists
also wounded many people at Hambagtha and Limankara in Gwoza Local Government of
Borno after looting their foodstuff, including livestock, and fled without
confrontation from the hapless villagers.
Gwoza was
declared as an Islamic Caliphate by the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, last
year when his fighters seized the town which is south and about 150km from Maiduguri, the state capital.
After the
deadly attacks and taken over of Gwoza by the terrorists last year, including
Limankara village, no fewer than 40 policemen undergoing training at the
Limankara Mobile Training Camp were declared missing, although a few of them
were reported to have been located and rescued, with over 30 still missing at
the time of this report.
Reliable
sources told Vanguard that with the
liberation of Gwoza by military troops early this year, many fleeing residents
returned to Gwoza and other surrounding villages to pick up the pieces of their
lives, before another group of
terrorists launched fresh attacks on neighbouring communities, killing
unspecified number of people.
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