SUSPECTED Boko Haram terrorists have launched a new offensive in Yobe State, killing ten people.
According to Channels Television, the incident occurred yesterday in Buni Gari, Gujba Local Government Area, North-Eastern State.
Residents of Buni Gari, Baba Ibrahim and Iliya Maina, revealed over the phone that they learned about the attack when one Shettima Dawi went to scout for firewood a few kilometers away but was unable to return home.
His relatives and neighbors mobilized to find his whereabouts in the bush, only to be attacked by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
When contacted, Dungus Abdulkarim, spokesman for the Yobe State Police Command, said he had yet to receive information about the attack.
Abdulkarim, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, promised to call back but had not done so as of the time this report was filed.
Attempts to contact Captain Kennedy Anyawu, Assistant Director of Army Public Relations, Sector Two Operation Hadin Kai, were futile because his phone number was not receiving calls.
The corpses of the ten victims were reportedly evacuated from the suspected insurgents’ enclave by frontline troops and local vigilantes stationed in the area.
Buni Gari, on the outskirts of the Sambisa Forest, is the hometown of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni.
It should be recalled that the entire Gujba Local Government Area was under the control of Boko Haram insurgents between 2012 and 2014.
