Boko Haram ‘Kidnaps Nearly 200 Villagers, Kills Dozens’ in Nigeria -- Wall Street Journal
Gumsuri Raided by Insurgents Two Days Ago Firing Machine Guns, Says Local Vigilante Group
Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 200 villagers and killed dozens more, said a witness and a local vigilante group on Thursday, in what appeared to be the latest dose of collective punishment exacted on a community that opposed the Islamist group.
Residents fleeing the village of Gumsuri walked into the city of Maiduguri on Thursday, saying their hometown had been raided two days earlier by insurgents driving pickup trucks and firing heavy machine guns haphazardly, according to two members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, a neighborhood patrol that has expanded into a Boko Haram-fighting militia.
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