Scores of
villagers were, on Saturday, feared killed, following an attack by Boko Haram
terrorists on Gumsiri community in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno
State.
A local hunter told SaharaReporters that the terrorists arrived Gumsiri at
about 6 pm when Ramadan-observing Muslims were breaking their fast. Gumsiri lies
10 kilometers away from Damboa town.
Abu Damboa,
a member of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), told SaharaReporters that
hundreds of Gumsiri indigenes were forced to flee to Damboa.
"Many
may have been killed. Hundreds of civilians fled to Damboa town from Gumsiri.
The terrorists arrived at about 6 pm and as of 8.30pm, they were still
there," the CJTF member told SaharaReporters by phone.
Another
local hunter, based in Chibok, said the villagers who fled from Gumsiri told
him that the death toll may be very high. The hunter quoted the fleeing
villagers as saying that the terrorists easily overpowered local hunters
because Nigerian Army troops were not in the vicinity to assist.
"They
overpowered our members in Gumsiri. I can't tell you what the casualty figure
is now. We just want to appeal to the Chief of Army Staff to deploy troops to
all the villages between Damboa and Chibok. We don't have soldiers in
Gumsiri," he told SaharaReporters by phone from Chibok.
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