Boko Haram: Residents flee as terrorists invade community

Boko Haram storms village in Adamawa.

Boko Haram terrorists have invaded Gulak village, the headquarters of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State.

The Adamawa State Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Ahmad Sajoh, told Channels TV that the Nigerian Army and the insurgents were engaged a gun battle while residents fled the village for their lives, hiding in bushes and mountains due to fear.

Sajoh said the vigilante group and hunters association in the town are assisting the military in an effort to combat the attack from the terrorists.

Confirming the attack, the Chairman of Madagali local government area, Alhaji Mohammed Yusuf, said the attack was brutal and likely to result in loss of many lives.

Yusuf said “tonight’s attack comes barely 24 hours after two male suicide bombers entered the home of a family in Tsilah village near Madagali and held a woman and her daughter hostage.”

Afterwards, they detonated the explosives strapped to their bodies killing both of them including the woman and her baby.

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He added, “today’s attack also comes less than 10 days after two female suicide bombers attacked Dar, a village near Gulak.

The first of the two attackers detonated the explosives strapped to her body around 8 pm on Saturday, October 28, while the second did the same around 7 am on Sunday, October 29.

A woman with an eight-month-old baby strapped to her back was hit by the second attack (on October 29) and lost an eye, while her baby sustained minor injuries in that attack, which is believed to have been targeted at a church.”

He therefore, said the government is on top of the situation.