Suspected Islamist militants launch simultaneous attacks on villages close to town from which more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April, killing at least 30.
Suspected Boko Haram militants have mounted two deadly attacks just a few
miles from the Nigerian village where they abducted more than 200
schoolgirls in April.
The gunmen burst into four churches in the village of Kwada, spraying gunfire
at Sunday worshippers and then setting the churches alight.
Witnesses said that they had recovered at least 30 bodies, with the corpses of
others who had tried to flee being discovered in the nearby bushes.
“They killed dozens of people and burned houses after attacking worshippers,”
said Mallam Yahi, a member of a local self-protection force, who fled to the
nearby town of Chibok, six miles away, from where the schoolgirls were
abducted.
The latest attacks will raise concerns that the Nigerian army has failed to
make good on pledges to improve security in the area, where the militants
have long had the upper hand.
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