Suspected Boko Haram terrorists kill 20 people in gruesome attacks in Niger State

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They said the terrorists stormed the village in broad daylight on Thursday, assembled the residents and randomly selected 20 adults whom they shot at close range. Two months ago, suspected Boko Haram terrorists had also beheaded nine people in Allawa in the same Shiroro LGA, after the terrorists dislodged soldiers camped in the community.

However, the senator representing Niger East district, Sani Musa, described the gruesome murder of the 20 harmless villagers as barbaric, heartless and inhuman, saying that “My heart bleeds for them.

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