Boko Haram members
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17 killed in B’Haram, Vigilance group clash
No
fewer than 17 people were killed and 17 others injured when suspected
Boko Haram sect members attacked some members of the civilian vigilance
group in Benisheik village, near Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on
Saturday night.
The attack came barely 48 hours after
the Nigeria military raided an Islamic insurgent camp and killed about
50 sect members in the North.
While the 12 vigilance group members
were killed, five Boko Haram members lost their lives and four AK-47
rifles were also retrieved in the clash.
According to an operative of the
Civilian Joint Task Force Vigilance Group, Zannah Fannami, the vigilance
members were killed while repelling Boko Haram’s attack on the town.
The 27-year-old operative, with the
Civilian Joint Task Force vigilante group, who is receiving treatment at
the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for a bullet to his right
thigh said, “We heard that they would be coming since Friday and had
been keeping vigil all nights.
“Late Saturday night, when we least
expected it, we heard a thunderous sound like that of a bomb coming from
the direction of a soldiers’ post, then we decided to advance toward
the sound and the Boko Haram gunmen, carrying sophisticated arms, opened
fire on us, killing 12 of our members.”
The survivor explained that the
vigilance group, which was formed to fight the Boko Haram insurgents,
killed five of the sect members and took possession of four of that
AK-47 rifles.
Another injured Civilian-JTF operative,
32-year-old Muhammed Abuwar, blamed the military for the attack, saying
the soldiers refused to shield them from the “expected” attack.
Borno State Government labour adviser,
Garba Ngamdu, who also hails from Benisheik, said one of vigilance
members had died in the hospital as doctors tried to remove bullets from
his body.
He also confirmed the death of the five
Boko Haram members at the hands of vigilance members with machetes and
said their corpses were on the outskirts of the town.
September 9, 2013 by Sodiq Oyeleke with agency report
http://www.punchng.com/news/17-killed-in-bharam-vigilance-group-clash/
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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