MAIDUGURI— Residents of Attagara and Kawuri villages in Gwoza and Bama
local government areas of Borno State, respectively, repelled attacks on
their community by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
A resident said
the attackers invaded the village yesterday on motorcycles but met some
women, adding “they wanted to hit the women with sticks but when they
raised the sticks, their hands refused to descend.
“Three of the
insurgents fled, but seven were not lucky as the women alerted the
people,” and the vigilante group in the community rushed to the scene,
disarmed the seven insurgents, who were later lynched.
Attagara, a
border community with Cameroon is about 10 kilometres South-East of
Pulka District in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state and about 130
kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital.
Also, scores of gunmen
suspected to be members of Boko Haram were killed yesterday through the
combined efforts of members of the vigilante youths, otherwise known as
Civilian JTF, and the military in Kawuri village, Bama Local Government
Area of Borno State.
Twenty years old Mallam Mamman Yakubu, a
vigilante youth that participated in repelling the insurgents, said: “We
were able to kill many of the terrorists who invaded our community
yesterday night.”
On whether arrests were made, Yakubu said they were
not interested in any arrests because Boko Haram members hardly reveal
any secret when arrested.
A top security source, who confirmed the
incident, told Vanguard that three dead bodies of the terrorists were
recovered yesterday morning in Kawuri, adding that more of the
terrorists were killed in a nearby bush of Kawuri when they attempted to
flee to the Sambisa Forest.
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