Alwaght-At least 21 people have been killed during the latest attack by suspected Boko Haram terrorists on a village in northeast of Nigeria.
Reports say that terrorists stormed the village of Maikadiri in Borno Friday morning and opened fire on innocent Muslims.
"They laid siege in daylight because there are no soldiers or police nearby," said another resident, putting the death toll at 21. The attackers "killed, destroyed and then fled," he added.
On July 22, at least eight people were gunned down by the Takfiri militants during a raid on the village of Pompomari in the troubled Borno State.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” controls large parts of northeastern Nigeria. Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria are the four African countries which have been directly affected by the growing threat of Boko Haram in recent months.
Boko Haram’s violence has claimed the lives of more than 15,000 people and displaced 1.5 million people since 2009.
The group is also holding many women, girls and children captive.
The ISIS Takfiri group operating in Iraq and Syria has accepted the pledge of allegiance to the terrorist entity by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorists.
Nigeria's president warned Thursday that the U.S. refusal to sell his country weapons was in a way “aiding and abetting” Boko Haram, comments that followed a spate of deadly bombings blamed on the group.
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the capital, Abuja, on Thursday following a four-day visit to the United States.
“Buhari returns to Abuja, with no weapons sale from USA,” said a headline in Nigeria's The News.
