Armed men suspected to be members of the deadly Boko Haram group have killed 32 people and abducted 185 others in Gumsuri village northeast Nigeria’s Borno State, a security source and witnesses told Xinhua on Thursday.
Among those abducted were married women, girls and boys, a security source, who declined to be named, told Xinhua over phone. The village head and leader of the youth vigilante, also known as the civilian Joint Task Force (JTF), were also killed by the attackers who invaded the village on Sunday. Several civilian JTF members were injured while attempting to repel the invasion, the source said.
According to a CNN report, gunmen in pickup trucks attacked the village of Gumsuri, just north of Chibok, a local Government area in Borno on Sunday. “They gathered women and children and took them away in trucks after burning most of the village with petrol bombs,” a local Government official said on the condition of anonymity.