PAMBULA-KWAMDA, Nigeria — Islamic extremist attacks in Nigeria’s Adamawa state have killed at least 29 people after weeks of Boko Haram rebels losing ground to government forces in the northeast, sources said.
Suspected Boko Haram members slaughtered 10 Christians on May 22 with machetes in Pambula-Kwamda, a Christian community in Adamawa’s Madagali Local Government Area (LGA).
“They destroyed the telephone mast first before invading our community — this was to prevent us from telephoning and requesting help,” said an area pastor who requested anonymity.
Maina Ularamu, council chairman of the Madagali LGA, confirmed the 10 deaths in a statement to journalists May 25, saying reports had reached him only that day due to insecurity in the area and communications difficulties caused by Boko Haram.
Boko Haram was suspected in a suicide bombing of the Christian community of Garkida in Adamawa state May 19 that killed nine people and a shooting attack May 16 in Wagga, Madagali LGA that took the lives of 10 Christians, sources said. The violence was seen as a gesture by Boko Haram to reclaim territory lost to the Nigerian military.
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