The quick intervention by security operatives stopped what would have been a brutal bloodbath as Boko Haram terrorists invaded a village in Borno State.
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Five villagers were killed after gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members attacked Kwashebe village of Jere Local Government Area in the outskirts of Maidugiri.
According to a security source the terrorists started shooting randomly at the villagers and setting houses ablaze with petrol bombs before looting food and livestock from the village and left.
The attack was said to have occurred at about 10.30 in the morning of Tuesday.
The source added that; “It was the quick intervention of some Civilian JTF around the area that responded on the attack by evacuating some victims, particularly the injured ones to a nearby Police Station in Jere Local Government Area”.
The Nation revealed that troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army have been mobilized to the scene to swoop on the attackers , even as additional three dead bodies were taken to the same Jere Police Station, while other who sustained injuries were taken to State Specialists Hospital Maiduguri for treatment.