SAN FRANCISCO, March 28, (THEWILL) – Boko Haram gunmen early Saturday stormed Buratai village in Biu local area of Borno state, killing 25 people and injuring five others.
Local residents said the insurgents stormed the village around 4am Saturday morning and unleashed their terror, though disclosing that the attack did not affect the presidential and National Assembly elections as voters from the six wards of the local government were voting at a designated centre in Miringa town.
The state governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, confirmed the attack, saying he received report that 25 people were killed, while five others were injured in the Boko Haram attack.
He stated that the state commissioner of education who happens to be from Buratai has participated in the burial of those killed even as he conveyed the state government condolences to the people of the town, stressing that two days after the election he would personally to the village and condole with the people.
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