Gunmen killed at least 97 people in Kukawa, the worst-affected village, according to a local called 'Kolo' who said he had counted the bodied. A fisherman who saw the attack corroborated the figure.
Kolo said: ‘They wiped out the immediate family of my uncle... They killed his children, about five of them, and set his entire house ablaze.’
Another witness in Kukawa, Babami Alhaji Kolo, who fled to the state capital Maiduguri, said more than 50 militants had stormed the village.
‘The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast,’ he said.
‘They... opened fire on the worshippers who were mostly men and young children. They spared nobody.
‘In fact, while some of the terrorists waited and set most of the corpses on fire, others proceeded to houses and shot indiscriminately at women who were preparing food.’
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