Residents of Attagara and Kawuri
villages in Gwoza and Bama local government areas of Borno State, respectively,
repelled attacks on their community by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
A resident said the attackers invaded
the village yesterday on motorcycles but met some women, adding “they wanted to
hit the women with sticks but when they raised the sticks, their hands refused
to descend.
“Three of the insurgents fled, but
seven were not lucky as the women alerted the people,” and the vigilante group
in the community rushed to the scene, disarmed the seven insurgents, who were
later lynched.
Attagara, a border community with
Cameroon is about 10 kilometres South-East of Pulka District in Gwoza Local
Government Area of the state and about 130 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state
capital.
Also, scores of gunmen suspected to
be members of Boko Haram were killed yesterday through the combined efforts of
members of the vigilante youths, otherwise known as Civilian JTF, and the
military in Kawuri village, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.
Twenty years old Mallam Mamman
Yakubu, a vigilante youth that participated in repelling the insurgents, said:
“We were able to kill many of the terrorists who invaded our community
yesterday night.”
On whether arrests were made, Yakubu
said they were not interested in any arrests because Boko Haram members hardly
reveal any secret when arrested.
A top security source, who confirmed
the incident, told Vanguard that three dead bodies of the terrorists were
recovered yesterday morning in Kawuri, adding that more of the terrorists were
killed in a nearby bush of Kawuri when they attempted to flee to the Sambisa
Forest.