Boko Haram militants killed seven people on Monday in a remote village in Borno State.
According to residents and an official, the victims were beheaded in a revenge attack.
The overnight raid targeted the town of Ngamdu in Borno State, which is one of the three states in the country hardest hit by the Islamists’ five-year insurgency. As reported by Agence France-Presse, the villagers woke up to discover that “seven people had been brutally killed,” a resident in the area, Musa Abor, said.
The gunmen “slit their (victims) throats just the way people slaughter goats,” he added.
Abor and a Borno State official, who preferred to speak under anonymity, said the bodies had been decapitated, in the latest act of gruesome violence blamed on the Islamists, who have killed more than 10,000 people since 2009. continue.........
An army officer in Borno, who also requested anonymity, said 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed in clashes in Ngamdu two weeks ago and the group had vowed a revenge against the community.
Those killed on Monday could not immediately be identified as vigilantes and the defence ministry was not available to comment on the attack or the alleged beheading.
In a related development, at least eight people were killed in Cameroon on Monday in a rocket attack blamed on Boko Haram.
A police officer told the AFP that Boko Haram militants fired the rocket from the Nigerian town of Banki, which hit the town of Amchide in the far north of Cameroon.
“The rocket landed in Amchide, killing eight civilians and injuring many more. We fear that the number of dead will rise,” a policeman, who asked not to be named, said.
A Cameroonian security agent said the rocket landed in a road where many people were shopping.
Boko Haram took control of Banki several weeks ago and the militants have tried to make incursions across the border into Amchide.
The residents of Amchide have set up self-defence groups to fight off the Islamists.
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