Boko Haram insurgents kill 20, injure 10 in Borno

MAIDUGURI— No fewer than 20 persons were killed
yesterday, while 10 others were injured when gunmen
suspected to be members of the Boko Haram insurgency
group launched an attack on Logomani village in Dikwa Local
Government Area of Borno State.

Dikwa is about 65 kilometres away from Maiduguri, where
series of terrorists' attacks and killings had occurred in
recent times. Soldiers were said to have later pursued the
insurgents into the forest around Ngamboru Ngala.

Bukar Alhaji Gana, a native of Logomani, said that about a
week before the attack, there was a rumour that some
members of the sect were seen heading towards Marte
area, where a terrorist camp was located before it was
destroyed by the Joint Task Force, JTF.

He said: "We were told that some of the Boko Haram sect
members came around and warned some people, but left
almost immediately towards Marte, close to Lake Chad
Basin."

It was learnt that the attackers, dressed in military uniforms,
also left with some of the women and also collected money
from some of the truck drivers in the area.

A passenger who narrowly escaped death, told newsmen
that the attackers shot three passengers and slaughtered 14
people before someone alerted them that soldiers were
coming. They fled on their motorcycles into the bush.

At press time, there was no report from the military
authorities on the issue as the acting spokesman of the 7
Division Nigerian Army, Captain Aliyu Danja, could not be
reached for comments.
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