Boko Haram kills 10 in attack near Chibok, says witness

Suspected members of Boko Haram stormed a village near Chibok, Borno State, yesterday, killing several people and torching houses, 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 great) 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.

Some Chibok residents said they could see smoke billowing up over Koronginim.

“The attackers still pursued the fleeing villagers into the bush and shot them,” the village’s representative in the Chibok Local Government, Samuel Ogi, told Reuters.

“Some of (the villagers) are still in the bush,” he said, adding the insurgents attacked in the early morning and did not leave until midday.

A source at Chibok hospital told Reuters that at least four seriously wounded people had been brought in.

Koronginim is about 9 km from Chibok, where  Boko Haram abducted more than 200  schoolgirls in April.

The Presidential Fact-Finding Committee on the abduction said, while submitting its report to President Goodluck Jonathan that 219 of the girls remain unaccounted for.