Borno Boko Haram Attack: Death toll now 87
Death toll in last Tuesday’s Boko Haram
attack on Beneshiek has risen to 87.
Following the gruesome attack by the
terrorists, who disguised in military
uniforms, 23 persons were reported killed
while several others were declared
missing.
An official of Borno State Environment
Protection Agency, Mallam Saidu Yakubu,
however, confirmed yesterday that “87
bodies were recovered in the bush and
our people are still searching for more.”
Saidu disclosed this to newsmen when he
accompanied Governor Kashim Shettima
to the scene of the massacre.
Meanwhile, Islamist insurgents have
rampaged through a town in Yobe State
with heavy weapons, setting public
buildings on fire and killing a soldier and
the wife of a senior policeman, authorities
said yesterday.
The Wednesday attack was the latest
carnage to hit the region, which has seen
an upsurge in violence in recent days.
Armed with Kalashnikovs, rocket
launchers and homemade bombs, the
terrorists stormed Yadi Buni in Yobe State
around 10:00p.m., leading to a shootout
with troops in which a soldier was killed,
state Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufa’i
said.
They set fire to a makeshift police station,
the fire service, a local education office
and the home of the divisional police head
in the town, whose wife was burnt to
death, Rufa’i said.
He said: “Buni Yadi was attacked last
night by Boko Haram insurgents. A
soldier was killed in a shootout and the
wife of the Divisional Police Officer was
burnt to death in her home.”
Telecom towers in the town were also
burnt by the Islamists, the police
commissioner said.
It was the second time Buni Yadi was
attacked by Boko Haram in as many
months.
Scores of people have been left dead in
recent days from military raids or Boko
Haram attacks.
The military claimed, Wednesday, that a
strike on a Boko Haram camp in the
north-east last week left about 150
Islamists and 16 soldiers dead, amid
reports of dozens of troops killed.
On Tuesday night, suspected Boko Haram
members dressed as soldiers set up
checkpoints in the Benishiek area, killing
an unclear number of people and burning
some 50 buildings.
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