“Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded (had suffered) machete cuts,” Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian helping the Nigerian military fight Boko Haram, said of Saturday’s attacks in the villages of Warwara, Mangari and Bura-Shika in Borno state.
News of the attacks has been slow to emerge because telecom masts in the area have been destroyed in previous Boko Haram raids, hindering communication.
The Islamists invaded the villages, hacking and slaughtering their victims before setting the villages on fire. The villages are near Buratai, the hometown of Nigeria’s highest military chief Tukur Yusuf Buratai. Warwara, where 20 people were killed, was the worst affected, said Musa Suleiman, another vigilante.
The attackers killed six people in Bura-Shika and another four in Mangari, he said. The latest deaths take the number of people killed in Nigeria since President Buhari took office in May to more than 1,530, according to an AFP tally. Residents of the villages fled to Biu, 30 kilometres away.
On Thursday Boko Haram insurgents killed 14 people decapitating some of them when they raided Kamuya village, the hometown of the army chief’s mother, and burnt it down.
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