Many killed as Boko Haram loots Borno market

Boko Haram gunmen stormed a crowded market in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno, killing
several people and carting away food, witnesses said Saturday.
Dressed in military and police uniforms, dozens of insurgents attacked the town of Mainok, 56 kilometres
outside Maiduguri, the state capital late Thursday, firing a rocket-propelled grenade and spraying the
market with bullets.
The attackers also looted food which they loaded onto trucks abandoned by fleeing traders, witnesses
said.
“They struck around 1:30pm (1230GMT) during peak hours by first firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the
market before opening fire on traders”, Salman Lawan, a trader who witnessed the carnage told AFP.
“They killed several people in the attack but it is difficult to give a precise figure,” said Lawan who fled to
Maiduguri following the attack.
Another trader Modu Kachalla, who gave a similar account, said the insurgents were looking for cash and
food.
“They robbed traders of cash and loaded food into trucks they seized at the market before fleeing into the
bush,” he said.
“The market was full…when the Boko Haram gunmen attacked which explained the high casualties,” he
said.
“The attackers killed many people at the market but it is difficult to give a toll because everybody fled to
save their lives,” said Ibrahim Kolo, another witness.
Boko Haram, which has seized swathes of territory in Borno and in neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa
states, has been running short of food in the areas they have taken, according to residents.
On Wednesday the insurgents ambushed a truck carrying grain to Maiduguri outside the nearby village of
Ngamdu and looted it before setting it on fire, they said.
The news of the attack on the market was slow to emerge due to disruption in phone services in the region
on Friday. Telecoms services were only restored on Saturday.
Mainok has suffered repeated attacks by Boko Haram, which wants to impose a hardline Islamic state in
the mainly Muslim north.
In February scores were killed there and many homes destroyed by the extremists.
Their insurgency has claimed more than 10,000 lives since 2009 and left more than 700,000 homeless.

The last time I checked,dat state still de under state of emergency abi•how come BH is so free•na wa o

God help us o

Obasanjo dint lie, jonathan is weak to lead naija.

@ Baba Obasanjo is a mix-bread with Hitler,Stalin.....but Ogbeni Jona!!? NOP!

obenar wrote:

Obasanjo dint lie, jonathan is weak to lead naija.

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smile2012 wrote:

obenar wrote:

Obasanjo dint lie, jonathan is weak to lead naija.

that's a big lie

Dont start this now let go to Church and come back.

smile2012 wrote:

obenar wrote:

Obasanjo dint lie, jonathan is weak to lead naija.

that's a big lie

prove me wrong