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Boko Haram kills four farmers in attack on Borno community

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Boko Haram terrorists in northeast Nigeria have in a fresh attack on Wednesday in Borno state killed four farmers. The insurgents had previously killed three people in a raid in neighbouring Adamawa state.

Fighters in trucks on Tuesday reportedly opened fire on the farmers as they worked in their fields outside Lassa village on the fringes of the group’s Sambisa forest enclave.

“We lost four of our kinsmen to Boko Haram who came around 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) yesterday and shot them dead in their farm outside the village,” said Adamu Galadima, a militia leader assisting the military to fight the Islamists.

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“They (Boko Haram) tried to enter the village but our vigilantes mobilised and chased them away,” he said.

Resident Danjuma Ijaduwa who gave a similar account, said the attack was a reprisal after the insurgents incurred heavy losses the previous day.

On Tuesday, vigilantes in Lassa had laid an ambush on Boko Haram fighters as they fled a military pursuit.

The insurgents were retreating to Sambisa forest after an attack on Michika town in Adamawa state where they killed three and robbed a bank.

Residents said the jihadists lost men and equipment in the attack by vigilantes and troops.

The Lassa area which lies near Sambisa forest has been repeatedly attacked.

Boko Haram militants have repeatedly targeted farmers, loggers and herders, accusing them of passing information to the military and the pro-government militia fighting them.

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