Boko Haram members on Friday evening attacked Kwapre village in Garaha Ward of Hong Local Government Area in Adamawa State, killing five persons and abducting some women.
According to information pieced together by Sunday Tribune, the terrorist group destroyed some houses in the community while also looting the properties of their victims.
Confirming the attack, the member representing Gombi/ Hong Federal Constituency and Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yusuf Buba Yakubu, said the terrorists besieged the village, killing and maiming unsuspecting members of the community.
According to him the insurgents destroyed homes and property of the residents and abducted some of them.
“This latest attack on the innocent and peace-loving people of Kwapre is another senseless and cruel act of cowardice on a community that is renowned for peace, industry and serenity,” Yakubu stated.
Further information from Daily Post quoted one Innocent Geoffrey, who was said to have disclosed that residents of the community had at first mistaken the gunmen for herdsmen.
It later dawned in them that they were Boko Haram terrorists.
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