Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect have killed 18 people in an attack on Alau Ngawo Fate village in Jere local government area of Borno state. The Chief of Alau Ngawo village, Bulama Ibrahim said he counted 18 bodies after the shooting adding that most of those who survived the attack have fled the village.
The spokesman for Nigerian Army, 7 Division, Mohammed Dole and Borno state Police Commissioner, Lawal Tanko who confirmed the incident, stated that they were yet to get detailed information on the number of casualties. A former local councilor, Mustapha Galtimare, who was on the scene after the attack, concurred with the numbers of dead.
“They had been in the village for nearly two hours without any security personnel coming to the aid of the villagers,” Ibrahim said. Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the northeast last May and ordered in extra troops and air strikes on Islamist bases.
On December 2 Boko Haram gunmen stormed the Air Force Base and military barracks around the airport of the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
The group was also blamed for a car bomb in the city this week that killed 29 people.
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