Over 50 persons were killed by scores of Boko Haram terrorists armed with AK 47 rifles and other sophisticated weapons in the attack on Dalori village, near Maiduguri, Borno State, military sources have confirmed.
The attack came after repeated claims by the government that Boko Haram insurgents had been degraded and no longer had the capacity to assemble or carry out such large scale attacks except through suicide bombings. As if trying to prove the president wrong, the terrorists dealt a massive blow to the community where children were among those burnt by the insurgents.
The Dalori attack was the third attack this week suspected to have been carried out by the insurgent group. It is also the most deadly.
In Adamawa state, a suicide bomber believed to be a Boko Haram militant killed about 10 people on Friday and at least 12 were killed on Wednesday in an attack on Chibok, from where over 200 schoolgirls were abducted on April 14, 2014.
Ankas said insurgents entered Dalori in two cars and on motorcycles and opened fire on residents and burned down houses.
“While people were running for their dear lives…three female suicide bombers attempted to make their way into the crowd…and subsequently got blown up,” military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha Ankas, said.
President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the military have won the war against insurgency and that attacks by Boko Haram were just desperate attempts to embarrass him.
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