Recent Attack: Boko Haram Killed Over 148 In Borno

“The Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 men and injured 11 others in the attack,” local lawmaker Mohammed Tahir said of the Wednesday raid in the flashpoint Borno state.
Also the militants killed close to 150 people in attacks on homes and mosques in a north-eastern Nigerian village, witnesses said Thursday.

“The attackers have killed at least 139 people,” a local from Kukawa village, who gave his name as Kolo and who said he had counted the bodies, told AFP. A fisherman who witnessed Wednesday’s attack corroborated the death toll.

“They wiped out the immediate family of my uncle…They killed his children, about five of them, and set his entire house ablaze,” Kolo said. Another witness called Babami Alhaji Kolo who fled to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state where the attack took place, said more than 50 militants stormed the village early Wednesday evening.

“The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast,” he said. “They… opened fire on the worshippers who were mostly men and young children. “They spared nobody.