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Nigeria: 12 people killed by Boko Haram

2020-11-01T21:05:32.882Z


Boko Haram jihadists killed twelve people and kidnapped seven on Sunday, November 1 during the attack on a village near Chibok in northeastern Nigeria, according to local sources. The jihadists, divided into six pickup vehicles, attacked the village of Takulashi, 18 km from Chibok, shooting at its inhabitants and burning houses. Read also: The American hostage was freed by American forces in Nige


Boko Haram jihadists killed twelve people and kidnapped seven on Sunday, November 1 during the attack on a village near Chibok in northeastern Nigeria, according to local sources.

The jihadists, divided into six pickup vehicles, attacked the village of Takulashi, 18 km from Chibok, shooting at its inhabitants and burning houses.

Read also: The American hostage was freed by American forces in Nigeria

"

The terrorists killed 12 people, including two of our members who confronted them,

" said Abwaku Kabu, leader of a local government-backed self-defense militia.

The militia members, who came to defend the village aboard two trucks, were less numerous than the attackers who seized one of their trucks, he said.

The jihadists also kidnapped seven people, "

three women and their four children

", and set fire to 70 homes after stealing food, said Ayuba Alamson, a community leader in Chibok, who confirmed the toll of twelve. dead.

276 girls kidnapped in 2014

The city of Chibok was the scene in 2014 of the spectacular kidnapping by Boko Haram of 276 schoolgirls, which caused international emotion.

57 of them were able to escape shortly after their abduction, 107 were subsequently rescued or released after negotiations, but 112 are still in captivity.

Read also: Nigeria: 82 high school girls from Chibok kidnapped in 2014 have been released

Reinforcements were sent to Chibok after these kidnappings, which did not deter Boko Haram from continuing its actions in the region.

More than 36,000 people have been killed in violence since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009 in northeast Nigeria, where more than two million people still cannot return to their homes.

Source: lefigaro

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