5 Killed, 6 Injured In Borno Village Attack
Five people have been killed and six injured after an attack in Mainari village, near Maiduguri, Borno State, Channels TV has reported.
According to the report, the assailants suspected to be insurgents stormed Mainari, a village in Konduga Local Government, some 20 kilometres South East of Maiduguri at about 7.30pm on Wednesday, shooting sporadically as informed by the villagers.
The shooting by suspected insurgents, it was reported continued till about 8PM when the military mobilised to the area and engaged the suspected insurgents in a gunbattle.
Some members of the Civilian Joint Task Force in Konduga told reporters that corpses of the dead were identified as villagers after the attack.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.