Saudi- Boko Haram kills 48 fish vendors in northeast Nigeria
(MENAFN- Arab News) KANO Nigeria: Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria's restive Borno State near the border with Chad the head of the fish traders association told AFP on Sunday.
'Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders on their way to Chad to buy fish' Abubakar Gamandi said.
He said the insurgents set up a barricade at Dogon Fili 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Doron Baga and stopped a convoy of fish vendors around midday slaughtering some of them and drowning others in the lake.
'The Boko Haram gunmen slit the throats of some of the men and tied the hands and legs of the others before throwing them into the lake to drown' Gamandi told AFP by telephone from Maiduguri the Borno state capital.
'Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders on their way to Chad to buy fish' Abubakar Gamandi said.
He said the insurgents set up a barricade at Dogon Fili 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Doron Baga and stopped a convoy of fish vendors around midday slaughtering some of them and drowning others in the lake.
'The Boko Haram gunmen slit the throats of some of the men and tied the hands and legs of the others before throwing them into the lake to drown' Gamandi told AFP by telephone from Maiduguri the Borno state capital.
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