Boko Haram Kills 4, Abducts Unspecified Number of Girls Near Army Chief’s Village

At least four persons were killed and an unspecified number of teenage girls abducted in Bam Village, about seven kilometers away from Buratai village, the home town of Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, on Sunday during an attack by the
terrorist group, Boko Haram.
A resident of the area who fled to
Miringa town for safety, Abubakar Ali,

told our correspondent on phone on
Sunday evening that the insurgents
invaded his village about 3:30am and
set ablaze the whole village.
He alleged that they killed four persons and later left with some of the yet to be married
teenage girls.
He lamented that the insurgents
operated in the village till about 5am and even had the audacity to "separate teenage girls from married women, set
ablaze the whole village and left with the choice girls unchallenged."
He said it was unfortunate that "these hoodlums always attacked our villages unchallenged. I am calling on General
Buratai to do something about this forthe soldiers seem to be doing little to checkmate them here.
"We have been telling the soldiers that
the Boko Haram are in some villages around here but they only go to Mangari a few kilometres away from
Buratai and shoot in the air and come back. It seems the soldiers are afraid to
confront them."
In a related development, some BoSundayam terrorists also attacked and
burnt down Gajiganna village in
Magumeri local government area of
Borno state, killing three persons
including a