Boko Haram kills 10, abducts two inhighway attack

No fewer than 10 persons were killed when members of the Boko Haram sect laid seige to the Borno highway.

The insurgents also kidnapped a young woman and her two year old child.

An eye witness and driver, Ali Yakub, who managed to flee the attack, narrated the incident to newsmen in Maiduguri, yesterday.

Yakub said that the incident occurred at Madari village on the Maiduguri- Baga Road.

He said he was badly shaken when he saw “a man who looks like a Chadian in a Hilux vehicle mounted with Multi Purpose Machine gun opening fire on any vehicle he came across.”

Yakub said he was spared by the group who asked where he hailed from and he told them he came from Yusufari and that he was heading to Bindari with his passengers.
“We were coming back from Cross Kawa on Monday at about 2.30pm when Boko Haram members appeared in about 10 vehicles, including an LX 470 jeep and opened fire on motorists on the road,” he said.

According to Yakub, the sect members slaughted the driver and five passengers of a Peugeot vehicle.

“They also abducted a young woman and her two-year old child. A Mercedes Benz driver on top speed was shot at and killed with all the occupants of his car,” he added.

However, the attack is yet to be confirmed by the Police as efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Gideon Jibrin, for official confirmation were unsuccessful.