Boko Haram Captures Baga, Kills Scores in Borno, Yobe

Seeming to resume from the Yuletide holidays, the Boko Haram insurgents on Sunday struck again with vengeance, capturing Baga, a fishing community in Borno State, as well as killing scores of persons in Yobe State.

Some residents of the fishing community, who escaped the insurgents' onslaught, said in Maiduguri that the Islamic fundamentalists had hoisted their flag at the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) after attacking the military base.

The capture of the base had sent many fleeing into Maiduguri, the capital of the troubled Borno State.

Thousands of the fleeing residents were yesterday seen at the Baga motor park in Maiduguri, while some anxious residents of the state capital were also seen waiting for their relatives.

According to report, one of the escaped residents, Ibrahim Kaka, who arrived Maiduguri around 5pm yesterday, said he slept in the bush and trekked many miles before he got a bus which brought him to Maiduguri.

He said: “It was around 5am yesterday (Saturday) when we started hearing gunshots and they gained entrance into the Multinational National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) premises where they killed many civilians living in the barracks.”

Another escapee, Modu Isa, said “They did not spare anybody as they shot at men, women and even children who were fleeing into the bush"