More than 70 Nigerians were
allegedly killed on Sunday when Cameroonian troops invaded a village in Borno
state.
Residents of Kirawa-Jimni village in
Gwoza local government area of Borno State have said that they have buried over
70 persons after soldiers of the Cameroonian army allegedly chased Boko Haram
insurgents into their community.
The incident, which happened on
Sunday, had forced many of the villagers to flee their community in fear for
their lives.
According to Leadership, some of the
villagers revealed, on phone, that the soldiers invaded their community on
Sunday afternoon demanding the whereabouts of some Boko Haram fighters whom
they had been chasing.
Muhammed Abba, a resident of Jimnana
and deputy commander of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria in Gwoza said: “We
didn’t know what was going on but the Cameroonian troops suddenly appeared and
began to ask us for Boko Haram terrorists.
“Before we could say a word, they
started firing; that scared most of us, and we began to run; but the soldiers
opened fire and many people died. Those that went back on Monday found over 70
corpses littering the ground.”
Confirming the incident, Borno State
spokesman of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, Abbas Gava, said, “From the
reports we have received from fleeing residents of the village who called from
Ashigashiya, near Cameroon, they said the soldiers were in hot pursuit of the
Boko Haram terrorists who ran into Kirawa-Jimni. The soldiers did not waste
time upon arrival as they immediately opened fire on the villagers”.
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