Boko Haram slaughter 45 farmers in Borno village

Boko Haram terrorists on Sunday attacked Rann, a remote village in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria killing at least 45 farmers during an harvest on their farm.

Residents of Rann, a remote border village in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria, said they had by noon Monday, May 23, buried at least 45 of their kin who were killed during an attack on their community by terrorists suspected to be Boko Haram.

Locals who are familiar with the incident informed HumAngle that they were still combing the surrounding bushes for any yet to be recovered body.

Rann, the headquarters of Kala Balge’s Local Government Area, is the town best remembered for many ugly incidents of deaths.

A security source who asked to be anonymous in this report said dozens of farmers and some local farm guards came under attack on Sunday, May 22, while on their farm. They were attacked by armed Boko Haram terrorists.

“The farmers were killed while harvesting their food crops off a piece of land at the outskirts of Rann villages,” the source explained.

He said the attackers didn’t fire any shots from their rifles as they freely deployed machetes in beheading many of the slain farmers.

“They simply descended upon the farmers and surrounded them and they began to kill them one after the other.”

“They brutally killed, by slitting their necks and dismembered the bodies of the 45 slain farmers.”

The source said all the 45 slain farmers and farm guards were buried on Monday after a mass Islamic funeral in the village.

Around 43,000 people are internally displaced and currently struggling with hunger in Rann.

Neither the government of Borno State nor the security operatives have made any comment on the attack yet.

HumAngle