Residents of Kukuwa-Gari village in Yobe state were thrown into pandemonium as gangs of militants arrived on motorcycles and a car and opened fire of them, local residents said on Tuesday.

Up to 150 people drowned in a river or were shot dead fleeing the insurgents who attacked them on Thursday last week. “They opened fire instantly, which forced residents to flee. They shot a number of people. Unfortunately many residents who tried to flee plunged into the river which is full from the rain. Many drowned,” Modu Balumi, a resident of the village, told newsmen.

“By our latest toll we have 150 people either (shot dead) or drowned in the attack. The gunmen deliberately killed a fisherman who tried to save drowning residents of the village.”  Balumi said the bodies of many of the drowned were picked out by locals several kilometres away.

News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants have destroyed telecom masts around the village, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Yobe State capital Damaturu, since the insurgency began in 2009. “Most residents, particularly women and children, ran towards the river in confusion,”said Bukar Tijjani, another villager, who confirmed the death toll.

“They were pursued by the gunmen who kept firing at them. In the frantic effort to escape they jumped into the river, which was full to the brim.” A local government official confirmed the attack but put the death toll much lower, at around 50.

Massacre

The ambush came during the region’s peak rainy season, when most waterways in northeastern Nigeria are swollen and can flow with dangerous speed. The village was still reeling from a raid by suspected Boko Haram militants on July 31 when at least 10 people were killed by gunmen who burned homes, food silos and livestock.

‎The Gujba area of Yobe state, where Kukuwa-Gari village is located, has been hit hard by Boko Haram violence in the past but had seen relative calm since troops reclaimed it in March. In September 2013 scores of students of an agricultural college in the area were massacred as they slept in their dormitories.

In February last year dozens of students of a boarding secondary school in the main town of Buni Yadi were also killed in a gun attack on their hostels. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for both attacks. The jihadist militia, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, has waged a violent campaign for a separate Islamic homeland in the northeast which has seen more than 15,000 deaths since 2009.

The military under President Muhammadu Buhari’s predecessor Goodluck Jonathan was heavily criticised for poor handling of the insurgency and its failure to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok in April last year.

Nigeria’s new leader, who came to power on May 29 vowing to destroy Boko Haram, replaced his military chiefs last week, ordering them to end the insurgency within three months.

Anti-terror force

Since May, the militants have stepped up their campaign with a wave of raids, bombings and suicide attacks which have left more than 1,000 people dead in Nigeria alone, according to an AFP count.  The Islamists have also carried out deadly ambushes across Nigeria’s borders and in recent weeks suicide bombers, many of them women, have staged several attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.

A five-nation regional force of 8,700 troops from Nigeria and its neighbours has been set up to fight Boko Haram and is expected to deploy imminently. Buhari told a national security gathering in Abuja on Monday his government would employ “at least an extra 10,000 police officers” and set up a federal anti-terrorism task force to crush the rebellion.

Chadian leader Idriss Deby declared on August 12 that efforts to combat Boko Haram had succeeded in “decapitating” the group and would be wrapped up “by the end of the year”.

Deby told reporters in the capital N’Djamena that Boko Haram was no longer led by the fearsome jihadist commander Abubakar Shekau and that his successor, whom he named as Mahamat Daoud, was open to talks. But Shekau dramatically rebuffed the claim in an audio recording released on Sunday and authenticated by security analysts, dismissing the Chadian head-of-state as a “hypocrite” and a “tyrant”.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/150-people-shot-drowned-in-yobe-river-by-boko-haram-gunmen/

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SOURCE: http://nairanaijanews..com/2015/08/150-drowned-others-shot-dead-while.html
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Not again...........

God save us from all the messengers of death.

Buhari wen will dis finally stop ?

"We will crush boko haram within two months".......the dulllard of northern nigeria

Hmmmm .. Rude boy

kodded:


"We will crush boko haram within two months".......the dulllard of northern nigeria

auntysimbiat:
At least 150 people drowned in a river while others were shot dead after Boko Harm men attacked Kukuwa-Gari village in Yobe state last Thursday August 13th.

The residents of the village were running from the sect members when they drowned in the river
"They opened fire instantly, which forced residents to flee. They shot a number of people. Unfortunately many residents who tried to flee plunged into the river which is full from the rain. Many drowned.

By our latest toll we have 150 people either (shot dead) or drowned in the attack. The gunmen deliberately killed a fisherman who tried to save drowning residents of the village."Modu Balumi, a resident of the village told AFP.

News of the attack surfaced five days after because the telecommunications masts had been destroyed by the sect members

Cc Lalasticlala Ishilove
http://nairanaijanews..com/2015/08/150-drowned-others-shot-dead-while.html

But this is not a joke... Only one person died... " borno deputy" ..All of dem went to borno.. But for dis... Believe me.. It won't move dem

sad news, RIP to the dead.






Its NOT LadyF again..

Eeyah

It's [size=20pt]LadyF[/size] again

Boko haram will be history soon

I believe the Nigerian media is supressing news about Boko Haram.

Dis number is outrageous!! How can 150 villagers plunge n drown in a river dey shd be quite familia wit? Rip 2 dose dat died ! Wen are we gon see an end to dis carnage?? Wwen is ds lunatic wif stumpy hands gon be captured finally??

eagleeye2:
I believe the Nigerian media is supressing news about Boko Haram.

I belive you want Boko Haram to continue killing innocent lives....smh

Demmzy15:
Chai Aunty Simbiat you can lie o

Never trust any news from bloggers

dayo23:
I belive you want Boko Haram to continue killing innocent lives....smh

This news is most likely false. Why are we just hearing about it now, since it supposedly happened on the 13th? Also, why didn't any reputable media outlet report it? If this was true, Vanguard would be the first to report it, since it's known to be sympathetic to PDP.

The zoo media appears to be muzzled

How come they did not report this since last week

Brown envelope journalism at oshodi/ apapa express way

If it is Islamic party propaganda, they will rush to collect bribe and publish

Punch is now good for tissue paper and wrapping groundnut

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/150-people-shot-drowned-in-yobe-river-by-boko-haram-gunmen/

how many people will boko haram killed before Buhari realise he has failed and resign honourably,


This Government of propaganda and promises is a failure.



NO MINISTER

NO ECONOMIC POLICY

NO POWER ROAD MAP

NO CORRUPT OFFICIALS BEHIND BARS


#isthisthechangewevotedfor

RIP

RIP

We're at the mercy of Boko haram since Bubu stopped the Nigerian army from entering Sambisa.

Pls can someone tell me when this nonsense and stupidity of Boko boys would stop? I am tired of this daily CNN(continuous negative news)

God have mercy

Its only prayers that can defeat boko haram

N

Eeyah

It's [size=20pt]LadyF[/size] again

I hope they were Yebows.

They need to be exterminated.

Islam religion of brainwashed

Ode

ladyF:
Eeyah

It's [size=20pt]LadyF[/size] again

Yet another senseless loss of lives.

Kalvan:
I hope they were Yebows.
They need to be exterminated.

animal