Boko Haram slits throats of 20 Nigerian villagers
Boko Haram Takfiri militants have slaughtered at least 20 people including several women during a violent attack on a village in the troubled northeastern Nigeria.
Militants on motorcycles and pick-up vans stormed the remote village of Debiro in northeastern Borno State and rounded up at least 20 people before slitting their throats, the online news agency Sahara Reporters quoted witnesses as saying on Tuesday.
The heavily-armed militants then set scores of houses ablaze in the area.
“It was in the afternoon time when we started hearing gunshots and people were running helter-skelter, there was confusion everywhere, some were shot dead and many had their throats slit. We were helpless as our foodstuffs were carted away by the rampaging militants who later burnt down most of the houses in our village,'' a fleeing resident said.
''I can't say tell you the correct number of people killed, but at least 20 people including women had their throats slit,'' the resident added.
Also on Monday, two teenage female bombers detonated their explosives near a crowded mosque in the the Borno State capital of Maiduguri, killing about 30 people.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former army general who came to power on May 29, has vowed to end Boko Haram’s six-year militancy.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” started its campaign of terror in Nigeria in 2009 and has recently expanded military operations in Nigeria’s neighboring countries as well.
Figures show some 15,000 people have been killed and around 1.5 million others displaced due to Boko Haram militancy over the past years.
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