BORNO STATE-(MaraviPost)-At least 30 people have been killed and several others including women and children have been abducted in a raid in Borno State by suspected Boko Haram terrorist group.
The state government spokesperson, Ahmad Abdurrahman Bundi confirmed the attack after visiting the site of the incident .
According to eyewitness, the terrorists opened fire along the Maiduguri-Damaturu Highway in Auno town on late Sunday on vehicles parked along the highway after the military closed the road as part of security measures.
As reported by Punch News, many of the victims who were burnt alive were drivers and their assistants who were sleeping the vehicles.
The surge has followed the creation of so-called “super camps” by the Nigerian military in the northeast – a strategy under which small army camps have withdrawn from several areas and combined into fewer, larger bases.
For the past decade, the Islamist insurgency has killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million from their homes in northeast Nigeria.
The attacks have recently spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon which has prompted a regional military coalition to fight the against the terrorist group.