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No fewer than 42 persons were killed after Boko Haram terrorists attacked Goni Usmanti village in Gubio local government area of Borno State.
An eyewitness disclosed that the attack occurred at about 1am on Saturday.
According to him, the insurgents stormed the village in four gun trucks and motorcycles and began their attacks before they were engaged by some members of the civilian joint task force (JTF) in the village.
He added that they were eventually overpowered after a battle which lasted about an hour.
“The fighter jet came eventually but it only hovered around without throwing a single bomb on the terrorists,” he revealed.
“No ground troops came to our rescue. Our people fought alone until over 40 of them were killed.”
The attack is coming barely a day after the President, Muhammadu Buhari claimed the terrorist group had been degraded and were only taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to execute pockets of attacks.
