Insurgents in Nigeria’s Borno state are believed to have beheaded at least 10 farmers after attacking them on their farmlands, according to locals on Monday.
Recall, last week, terrorists attacked two villages in Borno state, a hotbed for insurgency and the epicentre of a more than ten-year insurgency in Nigeria that has spread to the neighbouring countries of Chad and Cameroon, killing at least 25 people and injuring many more.
Abubakar Masta, who managed to flee, claimed the attackers, on motorbikes and armed with rifles, assaulted their farms on Monday around 8 am in Borno State’s Kawuri village.
“I saw 10 corpses of my friends who were slaughtered,” Abubakar said, as security officials were recovering the bodies.
Locals said that the Boko Haram terrorist organisation was responsible for the assault. Borno state is also home to the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP), a local offshoot of the Islamic State.
Residents claim that the extremists have been killing farmers and upsetting farming communities, which could boost food costs in a nation already dealing with double-digit inflation.