Boko Haram kills 7 people including a soldier in fresh Borno attacks

In two separate Boko Haram attacks, seven people including
a soldier, were killed in both Bam and Gajigana villages of
Biu and Magumeri Local Government Areas of Borno State,
while an unspecified number of teenage girls were abducted
in Bam Village. Several more people were injured in Gajigana
village after insurgents set ablaze shops and houses without
confrontation.

A resident of the area who fled to Miringa town for safety,
Mallam Ali Bam, said that the insurgents went to the village
at about 3:30 am on the weekend and set the whole village
ablaze.
He said:

"Boko Haram terrorists after separating a lot of
teenage girls from married women in Bam, set
ablaze the whole village and fled with the girls
unchallenged, as the attack lasted for some hours
before they fled. I called on General Buratai to do
something as we have been telling the soldiers that
the Boko Haram were so close to the village, but
they only went to Mangari village which is few
kilometers away from Buratai and shot into the air
and left. The soldiers don’t want to confront the
terrorists, Buratai should better do something before
they start attacking and sacking villages, as they
were doing before.”
Then they attacked and burnt down Gajiganna village killing
three persons including a soldier before stealing lots of
foodstuff.

An eyewitness said that the insurgents who came at
8:30pm on Friday started shooting sporadically into the air
to scare people, but they ended up killing one man, one
woman and a soldier.

He said:
“I believe it was a revenge mission, because recently,
we arrested over 17 Boko Haram insurgents in the
community and handed them over to the military. I
am calling on the Federal government and the
military authorities to do something about the
pockets of insurgents in the bushes and villagers
before they regroup and start attacking big towns
and villages,”.

He said that the attack on Gajigana could have been avoided
if soldiers acted on the information that they were given
rather when the insurgents came the soldiers took to their
heels without fighting them.