No fewer than 14 mourners have been killed while several others are missing after suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked Kwaple , a village located 5 kilometres from Chibok local government area of Borno State, on Monday evening.
The Chibok attack occurred barely seven hours after scores of motorists and passengers were killed, while others sustained injuries, along the Gamboru Ngala -Kala Balge road after the vehicles they were travelling in rammed an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by terrorists.
Confirming the Chibok community attack, the chairman of the council, Hon. Modu Mustapha, said the incident took place at about 6 pm on Monday when the terrorists descended on some mourners who were gathered for a final day prayer for one of their loved ones who died last week.
He added that many of the victims who sustained injuries in the attack were evacuated to Mubi General Hospital in nearby Adamawa State for treatment, stressing that the number of casualties may be higher as the community embarked on a search and rescue before a mass burial of dead victims on Tuesday.
Responding to the renewed Boko Haram attacks, especially in Southern Borno Senatorial District, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume described the situation as pathetic and beyond human imagination.
He added that, even yesterday, he received a distress call that over 10 members of vigilantes were killed in a community between Hawul local government area of Borno State and Garkida town in Adamawa State.
” My people are into severe casualties with no confrontation. In the last month, over a hundred of them were killed in several coordinated attacks in Sabon Gari, Izge, Kirawa, Pulka, Damboa, Chibok, Askira Uba and too numerous to mention”, Ndume lamented.
