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At least 110 farmers have been killed in a surprise attack while working in a Nigerian rice field. The militants arrived on motorcycles and tied the peasants hand and foot and cut their throats. At first, 43 people were reported to have died. Later, the death toll rose to 110 people. The United Nations has described it as the biggest atrocity against civilians in 2020. Al Jazeera News.
The killings took place on Saturday afternoon local time in and around Koshobo, near the city of Maiduguri in the northeastern Nigerian state of Bern.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly condemned the killings and said that the entire country was affected by the senseless killings.
Militia leader Babakura Kolo said they had recovered 110 bodies. All were strangled to death. Six people were seriously injured.
But the United Nations says 60 people died.
The leader of the anti-jihad militia said the killers tied the hands and feet of farm workers and cut their throats.
The UN humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Callon, said civilian men and women were farming in the fields. At that moment, the Armed Forces arrived on a motorcycle and attacked. At least 110 civilians, men and women, were killed. The militants took several women at that time.
Another militiaman, Ibrahim Liman, said the dead workers had come northeast from Sokato state, about 1,000 kilometers away, in search of work.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. However, in this African country, Boko Haram and ISWAP IS are rival groups. The herdsmen are suspected of being involved in information smuggling and espionage for the local army and militias, targeting and killing farmers like Boko Haram.
Last month, Boko Haram killed 22 farm workers in two separate incidents.
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