The insurgents also abducted many travelers mostly women after setting vehicles ablaze.
At least 20 persons, mostly travellers, who were stranded outside the military-controlled entrance gate of Maiduguri were on Sunday night killed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents.
The governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, confirmed the gruesome massacre of the travelers on Monday when he visited the site of the attack in Auno, a village 24km away from Maiduguri city centre.Recently, soldiers of the Nigerian military in Borno State erected a gate that they lock at the curfew time, which is 6 pm.
Often, long distant travellers are forced to spend the night outside the barricade till 6.a.m. the next day, when the gates are opened. The military mounted gates, designed to check the influx of Boko Haram insurgents at night, have been widely criticised by members of the public who worried that making travelers sleep in the bush could expose them to serious danger.Witnesses in Auno said the attackers crept out in large numbers around 10 p.m.and opened fire on them while they were sleeping inside the vehicles.“They also burnt 18 buses and cars and took away other travellers.
“I saw some three bodies that were burnt on the ground. I counted about 21 vehicles that have been burnt,” a commercial driver, Mallam Yunusa, who witnessed the incident, said.
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