Boko Haram insurgents raided a village of Ashir along Biu road in Damboa (LGA) of Borno State

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The militants reportedly invaded the remote villagein
search for food and after snatching the required number
of products set the entire village on fire. There are no
reports about injuried or deceased at the moment.

Recalling the attack a local vigilante from Biu town,
Abubakar Jojori said: ”They came on motorcycles around
8:30pm. As a local vigilante on duty saw them he quickly
alerted the villagers. Everyone fled into the nearby bushes.
Boko Haram went away with two vehicles, some bicycles,
goats, chickens as well as all the foodstuffs including salt.
But we thank Allah nobody was killed. Only a few people
sustained small injuries.”

Ashir village is about 5 kilometers away from Damboa
which is 60 miles from Maiduguri, the Borno State
capital. Today Niger’s air force has carried out its
biggest counter-offensive attack against insurgents in
eight months, destroying their base and killing 20.

It would be recalled that in mid-2014 the militants
gained control of swathes of territory in and around
their home state of Borno, estimated at 50,000 square
kilometres in January 2015, but did not capture the
state capital, Maiduguri, where the group was
originally based.

In September 2015, the Director of Information at the
Defence Headquarters of Nigeria announced that all
Boko Haram camps had been destroyed.

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