The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that 85 people were killed following an attack on Dalori, a village in Borno State in Nigeria’s volatile northeast region, by the dreaded Boko Haram sect.
Sixty-two other people sustained injuries and are receiving treatment at the General Hospital in Maiduguri the capital of the state.
Most of those affected were fleeing women and children who ran into suicide bombers in a nearby village, an official of the National Emergency Management Agency said.
According to witness reports, the attack occurred at night, with the militants coming in through the bush, some of them riding on motorcycles and some in cars, unleashing mayhem on the village.
People ran helter skelter for safety, some crossed the river behind the village, but the terrorists were there to plunder the village, killing people and destroying homes and property.
Those who ran were lured to death by some suicide bombers who pretended to be residents and called them with touch lights, urging them to come to where they called ‘safe haven’, only to detonate their explosive devices, killing many of them.
The town has been torn apart and thrown into agony.
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