59 people killed in bombing attack in northern Nigeria

SANAA, June 10 (YPA) – 59 people were killed in an attack by armed Takfiri elements on Tuesday on their village in northeast Nigeria.
Babker Kulo, commander of a local armed group opposed to the ISIS Takfiri gangs, was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying that, at approximately 2:00 p.m. (GMT), ISIS militants attacked the village of Felu, a cattle breeder located in Gubbio district, Borno State. As a result, a local official confirmed that 59 people were killed.

According to Kolo, “59 bodies were recovered after the attack.”

He explained that “some were shot and others were run over by the attackers.”

Gubbio, about 80 kilometers from Maiduguri, the provincial capital, has been repeatedly attacked by takfiris, to which the local authorities have responded by assigning more than 100 men and traditional fishers to protect the area and its surroundings from such attacks.

The ISIS Takfiri fighters, the faction that defected from the Boko Haram group in 2016, are focusing on attacking the army and increasingly targeting civilians.