Gunmen suspected to be members of the  Boko Haram sect have shot dead four Igbos who were travelling to the East and stopped over for refueling at Taxaco fuel station in Potiskum Local Government Area of Yobe State on Wednesday at about 3:00 p.m.

Sources in Potiskum told the Nigerian Tribune that the assailants came on two motorcycles as if wanting to buy fuel when they took position and before anyone could realise it, brought out AK47 riffles and opened fire on the Igbo travellers.

According to the source, nobody knew whether they had followed the Igbo travellers from somewhere to the petrol station or not.

He said: “You know Igbos are being hated unjustly in this area and more so, they are Christians, not like the Yorubas that you find some Muslims among, even though they too were being targeted  because they are not northerners.”

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