SUSPECTED members of Boko Haram
terrorists have carried out a series of night
attacks in Borno State causing havoc and killing
26 people in the process. This was even as reports emerged that the
insurgents abducted a French Roman Catholic,
Georges Vandenbeusch in northern Cameroon. Vandenbeusch, who moved to the area two
years ago, was reported to have repeatedly
ignored warnings by the French authorities that
the region was dangerous. The Boko Haram
insurgents in Bdagu, Izge, Hartsa and Yazza
villages in Gwoza, Damboa and Askira-Uba Local Government Areas of Borno State,
ransacked houses and killed their victims just
as several hundreds were displaced from their
houses. About 40 houses were said to have
been set ablaze. An unconfirmed report said that three of the
attackers were also killed when some
neighbouring villages of Dille, Lassa among
others mobilized and pursued the fleeing
suspected terrorists to a nearby bush in the
area. A source said in Bdagu Community that the
attackers had between Monday and
Wednesday, this week stormed the affected
villages in two Hilux vehicles, three buses and
about 30 motorcycles armed with AK47 rifles,
and going from house to house to kill, loot and burning some selected homes. It was said that during the Bdagu night attack,
about 40 residential houses and farmlands
were burnt down by the sect members.
terrorists have carried out a series of night
attacks in Borno State causing havoc and killing
26 people in the process. This was even as reports emerged that the
insurgents abducted a French Roman Catholic,
Georges Vandenbeusch in northern Cameroon. Vandenbeusch, who moved to the area two
years ago, was reported to have repeatedly
ignored warnings by the French authorities that
the region was dangerous. The Boko Haram
insurgents in Bdagu, Izge, Hartsa and Yazza
villages in Gwoza, Damboa and Askira-Uba Local Government Areas of Borno State,
ransacked houses and killed their victims just
as several hundreds were displaced from their
houses. About 40 houses were said to have
been set ablaze. An unconfirmed report said that three of the
attackers were also killed when some
neighbouring villages of Dille, Lassa among
others mobilized and pursued the fleeing
suspected terrorists to a nearby bush in the
area. A source said in Bdagu Community that the
attackers had between Monday and
Wednesday, this week stormed the affected
villages in two Hilux vehicles, three buses and
about 30 motorcycles armed with AK47 rifles,
and going from house to house to kill, loot and burning some selected homes. It was said that during the Bdagu night attack,
about 40 residential houses and farmlands
were burnt down by the sect members.
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