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Maiduguri — Suspected Islamist militants stormed a village in north-east Nigeria on Saturday, killing several people and torching houses close to where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped two months ago, a witness said.
Clad in military uniforms, the attackers raided Koronginim in a convoy of sport utility and military vehicles, the witness told Reuters by telephone, asking not to be identified.
The attackers shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) before opening fire and killing “many”, the witness said. “Two of their leaders were giving orders that they should shoot anyone on sight,” the witness added.
Koronginim is in Nigeria’s remote Borno state, the birthplace of a five-year-old insurgency by Boko Haram militants, bent on carving out an Islamist caliphate in religiously-mixed Nigeria. The village is about 9 km from Chibok, where the Boko Haram abducted the schoolgirls in April.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram are still missing, an official has said, more than two months after a brazen and brutal kidnapping in the north-east.
So far, 57 of the girls have been reunited with their families while 219 are still unaccounted for, Brigadier General Ibrahim Sabo, the chairman of the government’s fact-finding committee on the kidnapping, said in a statement. — AFP.
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