The death toll from Sunday’s attack on three villages near Chibok in Borno State has risen to 53.
Also, many are said to have been displaced following the attacks from the Boko Haram insurgents, who launched an offensive, which was said to have lasted for about four hours, on Kautikari, Kwada and Karagau villages.
“Residents are fleeing from neighbouring villages into Chibok Local Government for fear of imminent attacks from the insurgents,” said a resident of one of the neighbouring villages near Chibok, Ishaya Ibrahim.
He added that thousands had been displaced in no fewer than 10 neighbouring villages as a result of Sunday’s attack.
“I and others fled to Chibok when we heard rumours that they would come back and we don’t know the next point of attack. Everybody is running to Chibok now. There is even no more space for people to stay inside the local government (secretariat); people are now sleeping on mats under trees with their little children.”
Ibrahim, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone, claimed the gunmen wore army uniforms when they attacked a church in Kwada.
He said, “They brought out all the men inside the church and started shooting them, while anyone that tried to run away, they chased with an okada and shot him dead and also opened fire on everybody in the town as they were running away.
“As of yesterday inside that church, they killed 31 people inside and killed others outside. In the evening, we found other dead bodies inside the bush. On Sunday, the soldiers refused to go to the scene of the attack until after the insurgents had left the place. There is no security presence in Chibok.”
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