Village razed,dozens killed in Borno attack

Attack believed to be in retaliation

At least 59 killed 

At least 59 people have been killed in an attack on a herding village in  Nigeria's northeast Borno state, local militia members and residents told news agencies.

Fighters drove into remote Felo village in Gubio district on Tuesday afternoon, shooting fleeing residents, running them over with their vehicles and razing the village. It was reported that 69 bodies were recovered.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack is believed to be a reprisal for the killing of fighters by local vigilantes protecting the villagers' herd from theft.

"It's an unfortunate day, for us to witness this," a Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) member, Kachallah Bumu said.

While he said the residents were armed, and had repelled previous attacks, this one caught them off guard.

"They took us unaware and killed our people," he said.

The fighters had been stealing livestock from the village, prompting residents to form a militia force to end the theft, said another militiaman, Ibrahim Liman.

The vigilantes had been "hunting for the insurgents" in the bushes, killing some of them in gunfights, Liman said.

Gubio, 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the regional capital Maiduguri, has been repeatedly targeted by armed groups.

The incessant attacks prompted the authorities to send more than 100 vigilantes and local hunters to protect the town and nearby areas against incursions from armed groups, including Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), which broke away from the Boko Haram armed group in 2016.

It has intensified attacks against the military in the last two years, repeatedly carrying out deadly attacks against soldiers. However, ISWAP's involvement in the latest attack has yet to be confirmed.

In recent months, there has been an increase in attacks on civilians blamed on the group.

The decade-long conflict has killed 36,000 people and displaced approximately two million from their homes in the country's northeast.

The violence has spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military coalition to fight the rebels.


Source: al Jazeera

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