Fighters from IS-linked terrorist group on Tuesday killed 59 people in a raid on a herding village in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, local militia a and residents told AFP.
Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province drove into remote Felo village in Gubio district around 1400GMT, shooting and crushing fleeing residents under their vehicles.
The attack is believed to be a reprisal for the killing of jihadist fighters by local vigilantes protecting the villagers’ herd from theft by the militants, a local leader in the village said. The jihadists have been stealing livestock from the village, prompting residents to form a militia force to end the theft, said another militiaman Ibrahim Liman, who gave the same toll.
Gubio, 80 kilometres from the regional capital Maiduguri, has been repeatedly targeted by the jihadists.
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