Boko Haram have taken over the north-eastern town of Damboa, Borno State, killing over 100 people in the process.
The Islamist sect had since hoisted its black and white flag over the
town left undefended by the Nigerian military, reports PMNews, citing
civil defence spokesman and a human rights advocate said.
Boko Haram continued spreading terror through the northeast, as
hundreds of people in Askira Uba have started fleeing the town following
letters from the Islamist sect group threatening to attack and take
over their villages, according to Abbas Gava, spokesman for Nigerian
Vigilante Group, who noted that residents of about “nine major villages
are on the run.”
Gava noted that there had been little or no resistance to the sect as
the only defence came from vigilantes armed with clubs and homemade
rifles.
A human rights advocate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity
confirmed the incident, adding that, Boko Haram had struck again as
people were trying to bury their dead, and that the toll was probably
much higher than 100.
The town had been under siege for two weeks, since Boko Haram
dislodged soldiers from a new tank battalion camp on its outskirts.
The defence ministry claimed to have repelled the attack and killed
at least 50 insurgents for the loss of six soldiers, including the
commanding officer, but locals said many soldiers had been killed and
that the military had been driven from the base. They said in the past
week, the extremists have twice ambushed military convoys trying to
reach the base.
Source: Information Nigeria
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