ABOUT thirty persons, mostly women and children, have been killed as a result of Boko Haram activities in Chibok and Kala Balge on Monday in Borno State.
Seven mourners were shot dead in a Community in Chibok while holding a third-day prayer for a late community leader in the evening, same day, commuters died after stepping on an IED planted by terrorists.
Several others sustained varying degrees of gunshot injuries from the attackers, believed to be Boko Haram terrorists.
The mourners were gathered for the final prayers of their community leader around 6 pm when the Boko Haram terrorists attacked and opened fire on them, instantly killing seven people, all men.
However, an update indicated that more bodies have been recovered, bringing the dead bodies to fourteen in Chibok, while several houses were set ablaze by the terrorists.
Also, an unspecified number of commuters, including women and children, died as an improvised explosive device exploded near Rann, the headquarters of Kalabalge Local Government Area of Borno State.
The explosive device, believed to be planted by the Boko Haram terrorists, detonated when vehicles travelling to Gamboru Ngala stepped on the IED eleven kilometers from Rann at the border area and fringes of Lake Chad.
Sources from the civilian JTF state that the explosion happened on Monday morning, killing at least four women, six children, and an unspecified number of men who were all commuters.
This also brings the number of deaths in the Kala Balge explosion to sixteen.
According to the sources, three other passengers, including a child, a woman, and a man, sustained injuries and were immediately evacuated to a medical facility in Gamboru Ngala and Rann, respectively, for medical attention.
Kala Balge is a border LGA at the fringes of Lake Chad, with no access road, and it is inaccessible during the rainy season.
The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, during a working visit of a federal government delegation led by the ministers of defence and the Chief of Defence Staff, decried the porousness of Nigerian borders, stating that the poor nature of the borders allows the regrouping of Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists.
Zulum stated that the terrorists take advantage of the porousness of Nigerian borders to attack residents freely, and until that is checked, Nigeria is not safe.
This explosion is coming barely seventy-two hours after terrorists killed fourteen farmers and two CJTF members along the border communities in Gwoza LGA.
On Sunday, ten Civilian JTF members were killed along Hawul in Borno and Garkida in Adamawa by an attack from Boko Haram terrorists.
The CJTF members were on a regular patrol when the terrorists ambushed them, killing ten of them.