Maiduguri: The survivors said suspected Nigerian Islamist militants killed almost 10 people on Sunday in an attack on a village less than 5 km. (3 miles) from Chibok, the scene of a mass kidnapping of more than 200 school girls in April.
A security official and witnesses reported that in a separate assault on Friday evening, the rebels killed seven soldiers in the village of Goniri, in Yobe state.
Aggression in Nigeria’s northeast has been continuing in the past year, and has acquired in strength since April, the month that over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram insurgents from Chibok. Attempts to free them, which have drawn Western support, have so far not succeeded.
Samuel Chibok, a survivor of the hit on Kautikiri village, in the Chibok community, said that approximately 20 men in a Toyota pick-up truck and motorcycles rolled into town.
Several people had died in the attack, including two of his relatives, he said further, “Initially I thought they were military but when I came out, they were firing at people.
I saw people fleeing and they burned our houses. Smoke was billowing from our town as I left.”
Almost 10 People Killed In Nigerian Islamist Militant Attack Village Near Chibok
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