separate attacks in several areas of Borno State at the weekend. The
sect also abducted five policemen and seized the Armoured Patrol
Vehicle (APC) the policemen were using.
This is even as a Chinese national was feared killed and 10 others
kidnapped after an overnight attack by the sect in Kuseri village
between Gamboru Ngala council area and Cameroon Republic, also
yesterday.
In one of the attacks, at least 40 villagers were killed and several
others injured yesterday's evening by gunmen suspected to be Boko
Haram members in Dalwa-Masuba village of Damboa Local Government area
of Borno State, security sources and witnesses said.
The gunmen who were reported to have attacked the villages in their
large numbers also burnt down the entire village alongside three
pickup vans carrying firewood from Damboa to Maiduguri, the state
capital.
A member of the security vigilantes, Abbas Gava, who spoke on phone,
said no security personnel had reached the attacked town at the time
he was speaking.
"We heard about the attack from some of the villagers who fled the
village, and we had to drive there on our patrol van. The entire
village was set on fire, and about 40 persons were lying dead all over
the place; their firewood pickups were also set ablaze", the local
vigilante said.
But the attack, however, has not been confirmed by the police and
other security operatives, as all their phone numbers could not be
reached for confirmation as at press time.
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