About thirty persons, including women and children, have been killed as a result of Boko Haram activities in Chibok and Kala Balge on Monday in Borno State.
Seven mourners were shot dead in a Community in Chibok while holding a third-day prayer for a late community leader in the evening, same day, commuters died after stepping on an IED planted by terrorists.
Several others sustained varying degrees of gunshot injuries from the attackers, believed to be Boko Haram terrorists.
The mourners were gathered for the final prayers of their community leader around 6 pm when the Boko Haram terrorists attacked and opened fire on them, instantly killing seven people, all men.
However, an update indicated that more bodies have been recovered, bringing the dead bodies to fourteen in Chibok, while several houses were set ablaze by the terrorists.
Also, an unspecified number of commuters, including women and children, died as an improvised explosive device exploded near Rann, the headquarters of Kalabalge Local Government Area of Borno State.
The explosive device, believed to be planted by the Boko Haram terrorists, detonated when vehicles travelling to Gamboru Ngala stepped on the IED eleven kilometers from Rann at the border area and fringes of Lake Chad.
Sources from the civilian JTF state that the explosion happened on Monday morning, killing at least four women, six children, and an unspecified number of men who were all commuters.
This also brings the number of deaths in the Kala Balge explosion to sixteen.
