Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot
dead 21 people in northeast Nigeria
who
were trying to return home to recover
abandoned food supplies, a local official
and a victim’s relative said Monday.
“The men, 21 of them, were stopped at
Bultaram (village) by gunmen we believe
are Boko Haram who shot them dead,”
said Baba Nuhu, an official with the
Gujba local government in Yobe state.
Nuhu and Haruna Malam, the brother of
one of the victims, spoke to AFP from
Yobe’s capital Damaturu, where many
Gujba residents have fled to seek refuge
from Boko Haram violence.
