How Boko Haram attacked Dalori Village, killed scores – Nigerian Military

The Boko Haram attack on Dalori Village, which killed scores of people, was carried out using multiple methods, the Nigerian military has said.

In its first reaction since the attack that occurred on Saturday night, the military quoted witnesses as saying the “insurgents came in two Golf cars, motorcycles, started opening fire and burning houses.”

Apart from the direct invasion, the insurgents also used three suicide bombers to attack residents as they tried to flee, the military said in its statement on Sunday afternoon.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported the attack which lasted about four hours; with scores, residents say as many as 100 people, killed.

Officials at the Maiduguri Specialists Hospital said 35 corpses were brought there after the attack, with about 100 others injured.

Another 70 corpses are believed to have been taken to the Maiduguri General Hospital, survivors said.

An operative of the vigilante group called Civilian-JTF, Alhaji Danbatta, who partook in the evacuation of victims told PREMIUM TIMES that many corpses are yet to be evacuated from the attacked village; and most of those killed in the suicide blasts have not been accounted for.