Arrested Boko Haram members
A military source and witness on Monday told Nigerian Pilot that the Islamic militants killed no fewer than 24 people and left several others injured in an attack near a mosque in Kwajafa village.
A witness, who gave his name as Simeon Buba said the assailants came to the area in different cars late on Sunday and gathered people to a mosque in the remote village, pretending to preach Islam.
Buba said after they (terrorists) have gathered everybody, they opened fire on them, killing 24 people at a spot while some escaped with bullets wounds.
But, Sahara Reporters said the insurgents opened fire on Muslims worshipers as well as bystanders, killing 25 people in the process.
Reports further revealed that the sect’s members thereafter swept through other parts of the town in a shooting rampage.
Peter Wida, a Christian resident of Shaffa, a neighboring town to the attacked community of Kwajafa, said the Islamist militants killed at least 25 civilians near a mosque during evening Muslim prayers on Sunday.
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