The fighters of the dreaded Boko Haram sect laid a siege to some
Borno communities between Tuesday and Wednesday night and killed 145 persons
and injured several others.
Some of
the deceased were killed in some mosques where the villagers had gone to pray
after breaking Wednesday’s fast.
The
attacks occurred in some villages in Monguno and Kukawa local government areas
of the state.
The
Tuesday attack was on Musarram village, located 8km away from Monguno town, in
northern part of the troubled state, where 48 males where picked out by the
insurgents and killed, according to a resident of the village and some fleeing
residents.
In the
second attack on Wednesday, the insurgents attacked Kukawa, a border town with
Niger Republic and killed 97 persons, according to
