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Four farmers were killed in an alleged Boko Haram attack in northeastern Nigeria, civilians and residents said on Monday.
The attack, near the village of Molai, about five kilometers from the capital Maiduguri in Borno State, was blamed on fighters loyal to faction leader Abubakar Shekau.
Shekau's message comes during an acceleration of Boko Haram attacks and only days after the jihadists killed 25 people outside Maiduguri, the birthplace of the Islamist insurgency. / AFP PHOTO
"The four victims had their throats cut," Ibrahim Liman, of the Joint Task Force Civil Defense, told AFP, badisting the army with security.
One of the activists used the mobile phone of one of the farmers to announce that they had killed four people and kidnapped two others, said Usman Gana, a local resident.
"They informed us that we should come and get their bodies back," he said.
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The attacks highlight the continuing threat to civilians in northeastern Nigeria, where more than 27,000 people have been killed since the start of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009.
The army has managed to expel the group of urban centers, but rural areas remain difficult to secure. Farmers and wood collectors have been targeted several times.
Molai was repeatedly hit during badault attempts on Maiduguri.
Meanwhile, more and more people have fled the town of Rann, near the Cameroon border, in northern Borno State, where 14 people were reportedly killed during an attack in Boko. Haram on January 14th.
At the time, Rann hosted about 35,000 internally displaced people.
The UN announced that about 9,000 people had fled to Cameroon after the attack, exerting considerable pressure on already overburdened authorities.
Walid Abdallahi, a resident of the region, said Sunday's withdrawal of Cameroonian soldiers sent to reinforce Rann had prompted "a considerable number" to leave the city.
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"We are afraid to stay, because with the withdrawal of Cameroonians, we are more vulnerable to Boko Haram attacks, because the number of Nigerian soldiers is totally insufficient to protect us from attacks," he said.
In northeastern Nigeria, some 1.8 million people remain homeless and depend on humanitarian agencies for food, shelter, treatment and clean drinking water.
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Boko Haram jihadists also on Sunday attacked two military bases in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno near the Cameroonian border, injuring six soldiers, two sources told AFP Sunday. military.
These attacks were the latest against military targets in the region, with security becoming a major issue in the election campaign ahead of next month's presidential and legislative elections.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to power in 2015 with the commitment to end the Islamist insurgency, is seeking re-election in the 16 February polls.
Earlier Sunday, the troops repelled an attack by fighters, presumably belonging to the Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau faction in the city of Pulka, along the Cameroonian border.
"The terrorists attacked around 1:15 am (0015 GMT) and the soldiers engaged them in a 30-minute fight forcing them to withdraw," a military officer said in a statement confirmed by another officer.
The intention of the fighters was to attack and loot the city after invading the base, said the officer, who asked not to be identified because he was not allowed to speak to the media.
On Saturday evening, fighters of the same faction attacked another base in the village of Logomani, near the town of Gamboru, causing a fight that injured six soldiers.
"The troops were attacked by Boko Haram terrorists who came in four armed trucks around 18:30 (17:30 GMT)," said the second officer to AFP.
"Six soldiers were injured by bomb fragments," he said.
Boko Haram has intensified its attacks on military targets in the region for several months.
On Wednesday and Thursday, jihadists attacked three bases in Borno and nearby Yobe, stealing weapons and burning them.
The jihadist insurgency in Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria has claimed 27,000 lives since 2009.
More than two million people have also been forced to flee their homes, causing a humanitarian crisis in the region.
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