A member of Civilian JTF, Tanko Dahiru has said suspected Boko Haram
gunmen, in a convoy of
pickup trucks, attacked Pulka village in Borno
State, kidnapping 18 girls and four women, without killing or injuring
any person in the early hours of Thursday.
Pulka is a border village with Cameroon, and 119 kilometres southeast
of Maiduguri, the state capital. Confirming the incident, yesterday,
the village head, told The Guardian that the girls were abducted, while
fleeing into the bush, but the women were “forcefully bundled” into
waiting pickup trucks from their makeshift huts.
He said the insurgents burst into the village through the eastern
flank before attacking the village to abduct the girls. He said: “The
Boko Haram fighters are from Mamman Nur camp. They arrived in pickup
vans around 6:00am and seized 14 of our young girls aged 17 and below.
Our people had to flee into the bush, but no one was killed in the
attack.”
He said the insurgents kidnapped four other girls fleeing the raid, whom
they came across in the bush outside the village. He said the
insurgents were loyal to the Boko Haram faction of Abu Musab Al-Barnawi,
son of Mohammed Yusuf and founder of the Islamist sect.
Umaru Hodo, a villager also confirmed the raid and warned that the
abducted girls are likely to end up as brides to some of the insurgents.
“They didn’t harm anyone during the raid and they made no attempt to
shoot any of us running away from this village,” said Hodo.
The Borno State police command is yet to respond to the fresh attack
and abductions at Pulka, while a statement from the military was being
expected at the time of filing this report.
In a related development, the Army has said a high-ranking member of
the Boko Haram terrorist group, Bulama Kailani Mohammed Metele, has
surrendered to 145 Task Force Battalion, 5 Brigade troops at Damasak.
Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, Army spokesman made this known in a statement,
yesterday, in Maiduguri.
Usman said Metele, from Tumbun Bera in Borno, belonged to Mamman
Nur’s faction of the terrorists group under the leadership of Abu
Mustapha.
He said Metele was of serial number 253 on the Nigerian Army’s wanted
Boko Haram terrorists poster produced recently. “He is currently
undergoing further interrogation,’’ he said.
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