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Boko Haram Attacks Village In Chibok While Groups Mark April 14, 2014 Kidnap Of School Girls

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Boko Haram Attack Village In Chibok

Boko Haram militants have dared to attack a village at Chibok in Borno state, yesterday, a day when members of the Abducted School girls Parents’ Movement for Rescue were commemorating the fifth anniversary of their abducted daughters, Naija News understands.

One of the parents told Daily Trust on the phone that while the commemorative activities were still going on within the Chibok township, the story filtered into the community the militant attackers stormed Kwarangullum village shooting sporadically.

The village District Head, Mallam Bulama, who was outside of the community, also called and confirmed that the Boko Haram terrorists attacked his village and were still there making destructions as of Sunday night.

Details of the attack were still sketchy, neither number of the casualty nor level of destruction were ascertained from either the security agents or residents of the village.

Naija News recalls that it was on April 14, 2014, 276 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen from Government Girls Secondary School (GGSC), Chibok.

Some of them had fled from captivity themselves while the government had negotiated the release of many of them, but more than one hundred girls are still missing, including Leah Sharibu, the embattled Christian girl is being held because of her Christian faith.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari who joined Nigerians to mark the unfortunate incidence promising that his administration will not rest until it rescues the other girls from Boko Haram’s captivity, Naija News reports.



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