Boko Haram Slaughters Another 44 In Mid Night Operation

In yet another reprisal attack by insurgents, gunmen said to be members of the Boko Haram sect on Tuesday night slaughtered no fewer than 44 people at Dumba village on the outskirts of Baga town, in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State.

"As am speaking to you now, Red cross officials and the San Medicine Frontier are attending to the injured victims,” a rescue worker with a federal government agency who does not want to be named said.

According to him, the village has been deserted, as the people are now taking refuge at the Baga central primary school.

Many people were also said to have been injured during the attack that lasted for hours. It was gathered that the gunmen also set fire on some houses in the village. Baga is about 157 kilometers away from Maiduguri, the State capital and an epicenter of the insurgency which had witnessed series of attacks through bombings and gunshots.

A rescue worker told Journalists in Maiduguri that the village came under attack late Tuesday when unknown gunmen stormed the settlement and killed many people when they were fast asleep.

A source with National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) who confirmed the incident to Vanguard, said the agency has mobilized to the area to access the situation and render assistance to the injured victims and those who were psychologically traumatized in the attack.

Meanwhile, the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of the security challenge in the North on Friday displayed video recording of Shura members of the Boko Haram sect where they called on their field commanders to ceasefire as being proposed by the government, saying that prophet Mohammed sanctions dialogue during Jihad.