Suspected Boko Haram insurgents in a convoy of gun trucks attacked Kalle community of Borno state and killed 12 farmers on Saturday morning. The farmers were working on their farmlands, when the terrorist bust from the north flank of Sambisa Forest near Molai community. A Civilian JTF leader, Baba Kura Konomi on Saturday in Maiduguri disclosed that the farmers were killed, without firing a shot of any gun mounted on two trucks. Instead, he said: “The insurgents used machetes; instead of guns to kill 12 farmers, while working on their farmlands, located along 185-kilometre Maiduguri-Damboa road. “They had guns but refused to use them, so as not to attract attention of security agencies stationed in Molai community.” According to him, Kalle community is 17 kilometres south of Maiduguri, the epicentre of nine-year insurgency. Kolomi said that the terrorists belong to the Abubakar Shekau Boko Haram faction that attack both military and civilians, without sparing the latter since 2009. He said that four people were also injured and they were evacuated for treatment by rescue teams of National and State Emergency Management Agencies.
