Boko Haram fighters last Thursday evening attacked Dapchi, a community in Yobe State, A resident of the community said the attack commenced at about 7 p.m.
Chrysora gathered that the terrorists burnt some houses in the community as residents fled.
Nigerian soldiers later arrived and engaged the terrorists in a shootout.
One of the residence of Dapchi who was an eye witness told BBC “Boko Haram fighters attacked Dapchi yesterday at about 7pm without killing anybody but took our food stuffs and on their way out Nigerian Air Force bombed all of them, we saw their dead bodies in their vehicles”.
Dapchi is the community where Boko Haram in 2018 kidnapped about 117 female students of a secondary school. Five of the girls died during the kidnap while all others were released except Leah Sharibu for reportedly refusing to renounce her Christian faith.
Efforts to reach the army spokesperson, Sagir Musa, on the latest attack were unsuccessful at the time of this report. He did not respond to telephone calls and a text message sent to him.
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