Dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, have stormed Ghumbili community, Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State a few days after a similar incident in a neighbouring village in the local government, known as Mildu, where seven people were killed by the insurgents.
The attack was said to have lasted from 11 p.m. on Wednesday to 3 a.m. on Thursday.
According to the local government chairman, Mr. Yusuf Mohammed, no fewer than 60 houses were razed and foodstuffs looted.
“They looted foodstuff, killed livestock and burnt the village completely,” he stated. Muhammed said the exact number of dead and injured people had yet to be ascertained and that villagers who escaped the attack were currently taking refuge at Gulak, the headquarters of the council.
The spokesman of the Police Command in Adamawa, Mr Othman Abubakar, who also confirmed the attack –the latest in a string of deadly blows on mainly soft targets in Nigeria’s troubled northeast.
Boko Haram appears to have raised its onslaught in recent weeks in its eight-year bloody insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives so far in the Northeastern part of the country.
