On Tuesday, The Boko Haram sect attacked Askira town in Borno State. One of the residents of the
town, Yusuf Mohammed, said the insurgents attacked
the town in a convoy of Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles at about
3.35 pm on Monday.
He said the terrorists, who were armed
with Improvised Explosive Devices and petrol-bombs, torched several
public buildings, including a secondary school, the Divisional Police
Station and telecom masts.
Mohammed, who arrived Maiduguri on
Tuesday morning in a pickup van with some other passengers, said, “As we
were about to depart the motor park Monday afternoon, we
saw some insurgents chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great) in Arabic.
They burnt down a school in the town.
They did not stop there they proceeded to the police station and a
health centre and threw IEDs at the buildings.”
Residents of the town who were scared, fled into the bush and nearby communities.
Their vehicles were mounted with Rapid Propelled Grenades and they shot sporadically and chanted Allahu Akbar (God is great, in Arabic).
Some residents had to flee in taxi to Maiduguri through Mbalala-Chibok Road.
The number of casualities were unknown as some bodies were scattered on
the road leading to Mbalala. Askira is a predominantly farming
community bordering Adamawa State, and 252 kilometres south of
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, the birthplace of the Boko Haram
insurgency.
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