Seven women have been reportedly killed, with five more abducted by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State.
According to The PUNCH, the insurgents were said to have attacked the vehicle carrying the victims.
The incident occurred Thursday at around 2:30 pm quite close to the Nigeria-Cameroon border town of Banki in the LGA on the security-escorted convoy of commuters and goods-transporting trucks.
A source who pleaded anonymity travelling along the Maiduguri-Bama-Banki route, named Babagana Kaumi, said via an audio message thus: “The convoy of commuter and goods vehicles tan into an ambush near Banki.”
He continued: “One of the vehicles developed a fault, and when such happens all the soldiers concentrate their attention on the faulty vehicle until it is repaired before the journey continues.
“That’s what happened that day; as the soldiers concentrated their attention on a vehicle that developed fault, the insurgents attacked, killing two commuters, the driver of one of the vehicles and his two assistants abducted about seven women and set the convoy ablaze.”
Kaumi said “Of recent, the insurgents only attack such convoys, snatching money and every valuable, including any good pair of shoes from commuters, leaving them to continue the journey alive and unhurt; but last Thursday, they attacked with anger.”
According to him, attacks by Boko Haram are increasingly more frequent on the Nigerian and Cameroonian sides of the border.
