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Boko Haram activists raided a village near the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria, while locals reported kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls five years ago, announced Monday militiamen and inhabitants.
The militants stormed Sunday night in Kwarangulum village, 16 kilometers from Chibok town, to loot food and destroy property.
The armed men, who arrived on board four trucks, "fired indiscriminately and set houses on fire," local activist David Bitrus told AFP.
The militants, who belong to a Boko Haram faction loyal to longtime leader Abubakar Shekau, "burned the whole village after taking away what the trucks could transport" in terms of food, he said.
Ayuba Alamson, a leader of the Chibok community, said the villagers had been fleeing hours before the jihadists arrived after receiving information from the local population who had seen them. armed men go towards them.
The attack took place just hours after hundreds of Chibok residents gathered in the girls' dormitory in the nearby town to commemorate the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls on the 14th. April 2014.
Their disappearance provoked outrage and the call for their liberation from the whole world.
Fifty-seven girls escaped shortly after the abduction, 107 were released after negotiations and 112 are still in captivity.
Recently re-elected President Muhammadu Buhari promised Sunday to rescue the remaining girls.
"We will not rest until all the remaining girls are back and reunited with their families," he said in a statement posted on his Twitter account.
He also promised to rescue Leah Sharibu, the last captive of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Dapchi Town, Yobe State, last February.
The decade-long conflict in Boko Haram has killed 27,000 people and displaced about two million people from their homes in northeastern Nigeria.
The violence spread to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, with the affected counties forming a regional military coalition to fight the group.
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