Boko Haram terrorists accept killed eighteen people on Fri inwards a raid on a army camp for civilians displaced past times the group’s trigger-happy insurgency.
The knife-wielding attackers, moving nether encompass of night, invaded the army camp inwards Banki on Nigeria’s edge amongst Cameroon, which camps over 45,000 internally displaced people (IDP), using knives to kill their victims silently.
“At around 12:30 am (2330 GMT Thursday) this morn some Boko Haram terrorists broke the barricade securing the IDP army camp from the raise towards the Republic of Cameroon edge in addition to entered to seize nutrient from IDPs,” a senior armed services officeholder told newsmen on Friday.
“They killed xi IDPs in addition to wounded 2 inwards the attack,” said the armed services officeholder who would non desire his hollo mentioned.
Adamu Ahmad, a fellow member of a civilian militia charged amongst protecting the Banki camp, confirmed the incident.
He said the attackers used knives to kill their victims instead of firearms to avoiding alerting soldiers at a armed services base of operations following to the camp, Ahmad said.
The raiders too stole nutrient assistance rations given to those living inwards the camp, said the armed services officer.
Boko Haram is reported to locomote running desperately depression on supplies afterward Nigerian safety forces successfully cutting off render lines to the group’s bases.
The develop on on Banki left eighteen dead, according to Modu Perobe, a fellow member of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a regional vigilante group.