Barely a week after the abduction of 11 girls from two villages in Borno State, gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members in the early hours of yesterday launched separate attacks on Limankara, Gur and Sabongari Hausawa villages, setting ablaze the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN), several houses and vehicles. They also killed a villager.
The gunmen, according to two eyewitnesses at Gur and Limankara, burst into the villages in several Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles with Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) and petrol-bombs in torching the church and houses, after snatching six vehicles and 1,950 bags of beans and other grains into awaiting pickup vans.
“The attack on our village came 24 hours before the insurgents struck, as we got the information that Limankara village will be the next target at the weekend. With this information, we had to evacuate all our children and wives to safer places. We don’t know who these gunmen are targeting to kill or kidnap, as they did last Monday at Warabe and Wala villages on the Gwoza-Bama road.
“By 1.35 am last (Saturday) night, I started hearing people chanting God is great in Arabic towards Jaje village route, before the houses of our District Head, Mr. Zephaniah Tada and two retired police officers were up in flames along with the church, 300 metres behind Tada’s residence.
The gunmen, according to two eyewitnesses at Gur and Limankara, burst into the villages in several Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles with Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) and petrol-bombs in torching the church and houses, after snatching six vehicles and 1,950 bags of beans and other grains into awaiting pickup vans.
“The attack on our village came 24 hours before the insurgents struck, as we got the information that Limankara village will be the next target at the weekend. With this information, we had to evacuate all our children and wives to safer places. We don’t know who these gunmen are targeting to kill or kidnap, as they did last Monday at Warabe and Wala villages on the Gwoza-Bama road.
“By 1.35 am last (Saturday) night, I started hearing people chanting God is great in Arabic towards Jaje village route, before the houses of our District Head, Mr. Zephaniah Tada and two retired police officers were up in flames along with the church, 300 metres behind Tada’s residence.
culled from National Mirror
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