The women of
Attagara and Kawuri communities in Gwoza and Bama local government areas of
Borno State, respectively, repelled and abort attacks on their community by suspected Boko
Haram insurgents.
According to Vanguard News A resident said the attackers invaded the village yesterday on
motorcycles but met some women, adding “they wanted to hit the women with
sticks but when they raised the sticks, their hands refused to descend.
“Three of
the insurgents fled, but seven were not lucky as the women alerted the people,”
and the vigilante group in the community rushed to the scene, disarmed the
seven insurgents, who were later lynched.
Attagara, a
border community with Cameroon is about 10 kilometres South-East of Pulka
District in Gwoza Local Government Area of the state and about 130 kilometres
from Maiduguri, the state capital.
Also, scores
of gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram were killed yesterday through
the combined efforts of members of the vigilante youths, otherwise known as
Civilian JTF, and the military in Kawuri village, Bama Local Government Area of
Borno State.
Twenty years
old Mallam Mamman Yakubu, a vigilante youth that participated in repelling the
insurgents, said: “We were able to kill many of the terrorists who invaded our
community yesterday night.”
On whether
arrests were made, Yakubu said they were not interested in any arrests because
Boko Haram members hardly reveal any secret when arrested.
A top
security source, who confirmed the incident, told Vanguard that three dead
bodies of the terrorists were recovered yesterday morning in Kawuri, adding
that more of the terrorists were killed in a nearby bush of Kawuri when they
attempted to flee to the Sambisa Forest.
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