Horse riding Boko Haram member kills 26

Boko Haram insurgents may have devised a new strategy of attacking soft targets by using horses and this time around in attacks on two communities in Borno State where they killed 26 people. 

Also, Nigerian Air Force (NAF) jets pounded the insurgents yesterday.
The insurgents rode on horses to remote Kolori and Ba’ana Imam villages in Damboa Local Government Area where they opened fire on villagers, killing no fewer than 26 people.
One of the leaders of youth vigilance group; Civilian JTF in Biu told Daily Sun that many of the villagers fled to Biu on Tuesday, a day after the attack.
“The attack occurred on Monday evening. Some Boko Haram insurgents rode to Kolori on horses at about 5.35pm and were firing at residents and shooting into houses. Accounts from the people show 18 people were killed at Kolori and eight at Ba’ana Imam village. More than 12 people were injured,” he disclosed on telephone.
He said the insurgents reportedly carted away foodstuffs, live stocks and looted their houses of other essential needs.
Some of the fleeing residents of the two communities may have taken refuge at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp at Biu, though this could not be confirmed from the Northeast office of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Maiduguri at Press time.
Damboa Local Government Area shares boundary with Sambisa camp, making the area once seized by Boko Haram vulnerable to attacks.
Meanwhile, the Air Force said it hit more strongholds of Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest in Borno State.
One of the major strongholds destroyed during air strikes include the solar panel believed to be used by the sect for generating electricity located within the forest.
The Director, Information and Public Relations, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, who made this known in a statement issued in Abuja, said the NAF in “its bid to sustain the ongoing air assault against the Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa Forest, has continued to hit vital targets with a view to decimating the capability and resolve of the members of the sect to continue to fight.”

-Sun