Boko Haram Kills Four, Abducts More Teenage Girls

Four persons were killed and an unspecified number of
teenage girls were abducted in Bam Village, about seven kilometres away from
Buratai village, the hometown of Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf
Buratai, during a dawn attack on the village by fighters of the Boko Haram sect
on Sunday, Punch reports.

A resident of the area, who fled to Miringa town for safety,
Mohammed Ahmed, told a Punch correspondent on the telephone on Sunday evening
that the insurgents invaded his village at about 3.30 am and set it ablaze.

He alleged that they killed four persons and later left with
some of the teenage girls. Continue…

Ahmed lamented that the insurgents operated in the village
till about 5am and even had the audacity to “separate teenage girls from
married women before they set ablaze the whole village and left with the girls
unchallenged.”

He said it was unfortunate that “these hoodlums always
attacked our villages unchallenged. I am calling on General Buratai to do
something about this because the soldiers seem to be doing little to stop them
from coming here.”

He added, “We have been telling the soldiers that the Boko
Haram fighters are in some villages around here but they only go to Mangari few
kilometres away from Buratai and shoot into the air and come back. It seems the
soldiers are afraid to confront them.”

In another development, some Boko Haram terrorists also
attacked and burnt down Gajiganna village in Magumeri Local Government Area of
Borno State killing three persons including a soldier.

They were also said to have carted away a lot of foodstuffs.

Punch