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In an account given by some eyewitnesses, another Boko haram attack has taken over a village in Borno. The men attacked the village in armored tanks and trucks filled with guns.

There are about seven people, including the village head, children and women, believed to have been abducted from the Faduma Kolomdi community, described as a nomadic town in northern Borno.

Residents reported that the men gathered the villagers and started shooting in the incident which lasted several hours.

One of the survivors of the callous Boko haram attack told the authorities that the attackers came under the cover of being Islamic teachers.

“They gathered us and said they wanted to deliver a religious sermon to us. They asked us to submit whatever arm we had. Some villagers gave up their guns, bow, and arrows.

“Suddenly, they started shooting at will. Even children and women were not spared, Many were shot at close range,” the man, who was not named, said in the statement.

“We have buried 49 corpses here while another 32 corpses were taken away by families from the villages around us.

“The insurgents abducted seven persons, including our village head. They went away with 400 cattle,” the man added.

The attack involving women and children was carried out by Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP members operating terrorist sleeper cells in communities in the area, Nigeria military spokesman Sagir Musa said in a statement.

A large number of troops have also been sent to the area to bolster the military’s response to the attack, the army said.

“The Nigerian Army is committed to investigating the circumstances of these callous attacks by desperate Boko Haram criminals and the bandits on innocent civilians,” Musa said.

Source: https://theupdates.net/boko-haram-attack-another-18-people-killed-in-borno-seven-abducted/