Suspected militants kill at least 30 people and abduct women and children in Nigeria's restive Borno state, officials say
In this photograph taken in Auno on February 10, 2020, firemen try to contain a fire on a truck down by militants during an attack on February 9, 2020.
The militants stormed in on trucks mounted with heavy weapons, killing, burning and looting before kidnapping women and children, state government spokesman Ahmad Abdurrahman Bundi said.AFP journalists saw the smouldering wreckage of trucks, buses and cars lining the road at the scene of the attack. The assault, some 25 kilometres west of Maiduguri, occurred in an area where fighters from Boko Haram-splintered Daesh in West Africa Province have been active, mounting roadblocks to target security forces and civilians.Witnesses said militants set alight 30 vehicles in the raid, including trucks that had stopped overnight on their way to Maiduguri.
Kolo told AFP the militants took away three buses carrying women and children to Maiduguri which had parked in the village for the night.Auno lies on the 120-km highway linking Maiduguri to Damaturu, a major regional city in neighbouring Yobe state.Militants disguised as soldiers have set up roadblocks to abduct and kill passing travellers and have above all targeted Christians and members of the security forces.
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