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Five villagers were killed after gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram
members attacked Kwashebe village of Jere Local Government Area in the
outskirts of Maidugiri.
According to a security source the terrorists started shooting
randomly at the villagers and setting houses ablaze with petrol bombs
before looting food and livestock from the village and left.
The attack was said to have occurred at about 10.30 in the morning of Tuesday.
The source added that; “It was the quick intervention of some
Civilian JTF around the area that responded on the attack by evacuating
some victims, particularly the injured ones to a nearby Police Station
in Jere Local Government Area”.
The Nation revealed that troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army
have been mobilized to the scene to swoop on the attackers , even as
additional three dead bodies were taken to the same Jere Police Station,
while other who sustained injuries were taken to State Specialists
Hospital Maiduguri for treatment.
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