Boko Haram kills 12 in attacks on Borno’s Chibok LG

Twelve persons have been killed in a fresh Boko Haram attack on Gartamawa community in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State.

The Borno State Police spokesperson, Nahum Daso, who confirmed the attack said it happened in the evening of Monday 1 January 2024.

According to Daso, two others were injured when the gunmen drove into the community in Hilux vans and motorcycles in large numbers shooting sporadically.

It was gathered that the terrorists stormed the community of Gatamarwa around 5:00 pm heavily armed with AK-47 rifles, came on motorcycles and Hilux vans, and opened fire on mourners returning from Gatamarwa.

The terrorists later attacked another Tsiha community near Shikarkir killed three people and abducted a young lady burning houses and looting their foodstuffs.

Chibok LGA is 125 kilometers from Maiduguri, Borno State capital.

It is a Southern Borno LGA whose communities have been devastated by terrorism in the past 14 years with many abductions by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Monday’s incident comes about a month after four electric towers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway were destroyed by the terrorists eleven months after power was restored to Maiduguri after a similar attack in 2021.

Farmers, herders, fishermen and loggers have been targeted by the terrorists who accuse them of spying and passing information to the military and militia fighting them.