Our correspondent gathered that the hoodlums who operated with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and petrol-bombs carted their loot into caves of hills for storage and usage.
A community leader of Kunde who craved anonymity, said 15 people were killed by the armed terrorists who overran six other communities of Gathahure, Hwa’a, Tihezeh, Hrazah, Hembe and Gjigga on the Mandara Hills that stretched 16 kilometres east of Gwoza, the council headquarters.
It would be recalled that Boko Haram sect in Sambisa Game Reserve Camps dislodged by military troops have relocated to Mandara Mountains and other hills surrounding Gwoza and Cameroun Republic.
The community leader said residents of his community, Kunde, and six others fled to Gwoza town, Barawa, Agaplawa, Kurana Bassa, Kwatara, Limankara and Ngoshe Ndahang, a hill dwellers community on Mandara Hills also.
The six other communities ransacked by terrorists, he said, include border towns of the Republic of Cameroun, where some of the residents had fled with their wives and children clad on their backs and shoulders, towards east of the attacked hill communities of Borno State.
Confirming the incident yesterday in Maiduguri, a top Military source of the Special Operations Forces (MISOF) at Barawa, a border village and foot hills settlement said: “some of the villages on Gwoza Hills cannot be accessed by our men, because of the difficult terrain.
“Our men can only be stationed at this village for our operations with fighter jets that could bombard the hills with cannons to destroy the training camps and hideouts of Boko Haram sect members.”
He said the local reports they had been getting from the fleeing residents, indicated that many houses and property, including livestock and grains had been looted by the rampaging terrorists that employed IEDs and petrol-bombs in attacking the hill dwellers in Gwoza council area.
The source, also told our correspondent that all the routes and roads leading to the mountain tops and hill settlements, are closed, being patrolled and monitored to prevent suspects from fleeing the mountain tops of Mandara Hills, which are under the surveillance of soldiers for 24 hours.
On the casualties of hill dwellers attacks, he said one of the community leaders reported to the Divisional Police Officer in Gwoza that 15 people were killed by the terrorists. He said that the roads and foot paths leading to the hill settlements will remain closed, until the suspected terrorists are smoked out with “starvation.”
Due to the total closure of GSM network services in Borno State for the past one month, the JTF Spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa and the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Gideon Jubrin, could not be reached for confirmation.
Also in Potiskum Yobe State, suspected Boko Haram sect members killed a soldier and abducted three others during an attack on the soldiers on Thursday night, a military source has revealed. The source confirmed the incident to Premium Times in Damaturu on Friday.
The source, who sought anonymity as he is not permitted to talk to journalists, said the corpse of the deceased soldier was brought from Potiskum and deposited at a hospital morgue in Damaturu, the state capital.
“The attack was a bad one because a soldier was killed and the terrorists kidnapped three other soldiers to an unknown destination,” he said. “Some of our search team are combing within and outside the neighborhood of Potiskum for the missing soldiers. A helicopter gunship had been deployed from Maiduguri to join in the search team this morning,” he added.
The source also revealed that three soldiers were killed and two others seriously injured two weeks ago during an attack that also led to the killing of secondary school students by suspected Boko Haram members in Damaturu. The gunmen had killed seven secondary school students and two teachers when they attacked Government Secondary School, Damaturu.
They also attacked a military check-point. The Joint Task Force in Yobe had claimed that no soldier was killed in the attack, and only one was injured, while two of the gunmen were killed, a claim our source says is untrue.
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