“Five people were shot dead last night by Boko Haram in Kaya village, three of them brothers living in the same house,” he said. Kaya village has been attacked before in the insurgency, which since 2009 has killed at least 20,000 in northeast Nigeria and displaced more than 2.6 million. In June 2016 Boko Haram jihadists killed 18 mourners in an attack on the village. Adamawa was said to have been cleared of Boko Haram in late 2015, after they rampaged across the northeast, seizing towns and territory. On Monday militants killed three people in a raid on nearby Pallam village where they burnt buildings and looted food supplies, in the first attack in Adamawa this year.

Source: The Guardian January 19, 2018 14:37 UTC