CNA Staff, Jun 11, 2020 / 14:00 pm
The militant group Boko Haram is believed to be behind a recent attack on a Nigerian village that left at least 81 people dead on Tuesday, June 9.
A survivor of the attack on the village of Faduma Kolomdi, located in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, according to local news outlets, said that militants requested that the village residents turn over their weapons, and offered to preach a sermon to them before the attack.
"They gathered us and said they wanted to deliver a religious sermon to us. They asked us to submit whatever arms we had. Some villagers gave up their dane guns, bow and arrows," said the survivor, who was speaking to a government official about the attack.
"Suddenly, they started shooting at will. Even children and women were not spared, many were shot at close range," said the survivor.