Horrible: Boko Haram attacks Borno town, hoists flag
Boko Haram members have allegedly hoisted their black and white flag over a town left undefended by the military just 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Maiduguri, a civil defense spokesman and a human rights advocate said Saturday.
Hundreds of villagers in another area, Askira Uba, are fleeing after receiving letters from the Islamic extremists threatening to attack and take over their areas, spokesman Abbas Gava of the Nigerian Vigilante Group said.
“Nine major villages are on the run,” he said.
Survivors said yesterday that insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and threw homemade bombs into homes. They then gunned down residents who tried to escape the attack on Damboa town launched before dawn on Friday.
Most of the town has burned down, they said.
A human rights advocate said the extremists struck again as people were trying to bury the dead later Friday,
and said the death toll is probably much higher than 100. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters.
