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The Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram attacked a village mostly populated by Christians on Christmas Eve, killing at least 11 people. The official toll of victims in the village of Pemi, in northeast Nigeria, was increased this Friday by local sources, quoted by AFP. Pemi is just 20 km from Chibok, where jihadists kidnapped 200 girls from a school in 2014.
The jihadists stormed the town with motorcycles and trucks, not far from the border with Cameroon, firing indiscriminately. According to the report of the French agency, during the attack the jihadists looted and then set fire to the hospital, kidnapped the priest and set fire to the church.
“Terrorists killed seven people, burned ten houses and looted food stores that would be distributed to celebrate Christmas,” local militia leader Abwaku Kabu said Thursday. Number that would be updated this Friday to 11 dead.
“The volunteers found four more bodies in the nearby brush,” added community leader Ayuba Alamson. “The death toll is now 11 people,” he concluded.
The death toll may also rise, as residents fled into the bush during the attack and some remain missing.
According to the leader of the local militia, the attackers came from the Sambisa forest, a well-known refuge for ‘jihadists’.
In various areas of Nigeria, communities had to form armed self-defense militias to work alongside the military.
