ELEVEN residents were feared killed and several houses and shops
torched when suspected Boko Haram gunmen in a convoy of four Toyota
Hilux vehicles laden with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and
petrol-bombs clashed with Nigerian Army troops at Ngamdu Village in
Borno State along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Road.
A survivor of the clash, Hamidu Ibrahim, in a telephone interview
yesterday in Maiduguri said most of the fleeing insurgents were however
killed when they were pursued by the troops and their vehicles used in
attacking the village destroyed.
“It was the Almighty God that saved our lives along with five other
neighbours this morning, otherwise, we could have been killed by these
gunmen that entered our village through Ngamdu-Goniri Road.
“As some of us fled for safety towards Maiduguri and Damaturu, the
soldiers pursued them into Sambisa Forest and killed many of them,” said
Ibrahim.
He said before the insurgents attacked the village, they first
barricaded the Ngamu-Benishiekh Road to prevent soldiers from repelling
them into the forest.
“The terrorists barricaded the road where they blocked two motorists,
including a truck which they suspected were conveying foodstuff to
Maiduguri. But luck however run out of them as reinforced troops from
the Jakana Village immediately swung into action and killed some of the
terrorists.
A senior police officer also told The Guardian yesterday that
motorists and commuters were asked to make a u-turn as the terrorists
had taken over the Ngamdu-Damaturu 35-kilometre Road.
(c) The Guardian
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