12th April, 2024
No fewer than 27 fishermen were slaughtered while three others were abducted by the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, (Boko Haram terrorist group) in the fringes of Lake Chad in the border between Cameroon and Nigeria.
It was gathered that terrorists suspected to be from the Buduma faction of Abou Ummaymah, attacked a local fishing community harbouring most fishermen from Nigeria at Island Kofiya near Darak in the Republic of Cameroon.
Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama that they asked them to lie down, tie their hands behind their backs before they started slaughtering them.
The sources said the terrorists also abducted four other fishermen after accusing them of spying for the ISWAP faction
The bodies of the fishermen were later recovered during a search and rescue operation by troops and their colleagues who received the news from victims who fled the attack scene.