Developing: Terrorists Attack Dumba Again, Flee With Rescue Team

By Abubakar Muhammad (9NEWS NIGERIA, NORTHEAST)

Following the attack on Dumba community in Borno State, the terrorists group has launched another attack, this time on the rescue team that went to recovery dead bodies of the earlier victims.

This newspaper has reported earlier how the suspect Boko Haram and ISWAP group attack Dumba and killed several farmers and fishermen.

Dumba, a small but highly fertile farming and fishing community, is situated at the shores of the Lake Chad, near Baga town in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno.

In the second attack, the terrorists abduct many, including community members, hunters, vigilantes and Civilian Joint Tasks Force that went out to recover dead bodies.

Available reports indicated that about 50 persons are currently missing, 24 hours after they embarked on the evacuation and rescue mission.

Borno State Government has earlier noted that the community members ventured into an area the military has marked to be still unsafe, which was part of the reasons leading to the attack.

While the community members also confirmed that, they added that they got access to the farmlands and fishing areas in the community after they paid certain ‘levies’ to the terrorists.

They, however, later fell out because the terrorists felt that the farmers and fishermen were giving out intelligence to the military about their locations and movements.

The attack was thus to ‘punish’ them for breaking the ‘pact’ of non-interference that existed between them.