Maiduguri - Suspected militants stormed a village in Borno State on
Saturday, killing several people and torching houses close to where more
than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped two months ago, a witness said.
Clad
in military uniforms, the attackers raided Koronginim in a convoy of
sport utility and military vehicles, the witness told Reuters by
telephone, asking not to be identified.
The attackers shouted
"Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) before opening fire and killing "many",
the witness said. "Two of their leaders were giving orders that they
should shoot anyone on sight," the witness added.
Koronginim is in
Borno state, the birthplace of a five-year-old insurgency by Boko Haram
militants, bent on carving out an Islamist caliphate in
religiously-mixed Nigeria.
The village is about 9 km (6 miles) from Chibok, where the Boko Haram abducted the schoolgirls in April.
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