AS violence remains unabated in Borno State, gunmen suspected of Boko Haram sect in over a dozen Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles Sunday attacked four villages, and shot dead 25 people with the torching of several houses and shops with explosives and petrol-bombs, before fleeing towards the border village with Cameroun.
The gunmen, according to Modu Bukar, ambushed the villages between Dikwa and Marte towns in army uniforms; and disguised as patrolling the road, before shooting any person at sight that attempted to flee.
Confirming the incident Monday in Maiduguri, a military source, who was not authorized to speak said that the insurgents are on “rampage attacking villages,” while fleeing their destroyed training camps and hideouts in Northern Borno.
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