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Villagers from a village in northeastern Nigeria, burned by Boko Haram fighters, said on Wednesday that another nine bodies of their relatives had been found, bringing the total to 30.
The jihadists, packed in four trucks and flanked by men armed with motorcycles, swept Kuda in the state of Adamawa, in northeastern Nigeria, on Monday afternoon, killing villagers then. that they were running away.
When the survivors returned on Tuesday to bury the dead left in the smoldering ruins of their home, they left 21 dead.
Later, the villagers claimed to have found the bodies of nine other people in the surrounding forest, murdered while they were trying to escape.
"They were pursued and shot dead while they were trying to escape into the bush," Paul Waramulu, an inhabitant of the historic site told AFP on Wednesday.
Two-thirds of the houses in the village were burned and looted cereal stores, he added.
"The total number of bodies found is now 30," said Simon Damina, a villager from the search team who searches the bush. "The balance sheet could increase because we are always looking for more body."
Kuda is located in the district of Madagali, in the state of Adamawa, 285 kilometers north of the capital, Yola.
This attack is the latest in a long series of mbadacres perpetrated by Boko Haram in the region, hiding hiding places in the surrounding dense forests.
There was no immediate official response from the army or the police.
The jihadist conflict that lasted a decade killed tens of thousands of people and forced millions to flee their homes.
The violence has spread to neighboring countries, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, causing the formation of a regional military coalition against jihadists.
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