Boko Haram Launches Fresh Attack, Kills Four Women

Boko Haram has launched fresh attack in a
remote village in Nigeria’s northeast,
killing four women in the latest attack by
the Islamist group, local vigilantes assisting
the military said on Saturday.
Fourteen Boko Haram gunmen on seven
motorcycles stormed Mairari village, 80
kilometres from Maiduguri, the state
capital late Friday and picked four women
from their homes and slit their throats,
they said. The women were aged between
27 and 45.
“They went into four homes while
residents were breaking their fast around
7:00 pm, brought out the four women and
slaughtered them,” Babakura Kolo, a
vigilante in Maiduguri told AFP. “We
believe the killings were targeted, the
gunmen were from all indications after the
husbands of the women,” he said.
“They killed the women when they didn’t
find their husbands”. Another vigilante,
Musa Ari gave a similar account.
“The general feeling is that the women’s
husbands either refused to accept Boko
Haram’s invitation to join their ranks or
the group suspects them of passing
information about them to the authorities,”
Ari told AFP.
Boko Haram has been accused of forcing
residents to join its fighters or get killed.
The Islamist group has abducted thousands
of people, including women and children
who it used as conscripts, suicide bombers
and s*x slaves. Boko Haram, which seeks a
hardline Islamic legal system in northern
Nigeria, has killed more than 20,000 people
and displaced some 2.6 million since 2009.