Suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram
terrorists invaded Kwashebe village in Jere Local Government Area of
Borno State where they shot and killed about five residents, sources
have said.
Among those dead is a middle-aged person
(name withheld) who died at the Jere Divisional Police Headquarters
after being evacuated with other four persons who sustained gunshot
wounds in their heads, the source said.
Kwashebe community is in the South East
and in the outskirt of Maiduguri metropolis which had witnessed series
of attacks by insurgents in recent past.
According to a reliable source, the
insurgents armed with AK47 rifles and petrol bombs, invaded the village
at about 10.30am yesterday and opened fire on residents, while setting
ablaze their houses after looting foodstuff and livestock.
The source added: “It was the quick
intervention of some Civilian JTF around the area who responded to the
attack by evacuating some of the victims, particularly the injured ones,
to a nearby police station in Jere Local Government Area that saved the
situation.
Our correspondent also gathered that
troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army, around 12.17pm mobilised to the
scene to apprehend the attackers, even as additional three dead bodies
were taken to the same Jere police station, while some of the injured
ones were taken to the State Specialists Hospital, Maiduguri, for
treatment.
Sources at the hospital and the
University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, UMTH, confirmed receiving the
Boko Haram victims who sustained gunshot wounds but were said to be
responding to treatment, though, they declined giving the actual number
of the victims admitted at the two hospitals.
All efforts to reach the police public
relations officer, Emmanuel Isuku, for confirmation proved abortive as
his telephone line could not go through as at press time; but a senior
police officer who is not authorised to talk to the press confirmed the
attack on Kwashebe village yesterday morning
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