20 Boko Haram’s militants killed in army general’s house

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 BY KAYODE IDOWU,
MAIDUGURI
Over 20 suspected members of the deadly Boko
Haram sect were on Sunday killed in Buratai town
during a siege to the residence of the former
Commander, Niger-Delta Special Task Force,
Major General Tukur Buratai, an indigene of the
town.
It was learnt that the insurgents also attacked a
primary school in the town, Buratai Central Primary
School.
Buratai is a lonely town in Biu Local Government
area of Borno State, which is a distance of over
200 kilometres from the state capital, Maiduguri.
Mallam Idi Buratai, a resident of Buratai, told
journalists on Monday in a telephone interview that
over 50 gunmen invaded the town on motorcycles
and Hilux Vans and attacked the residence of the
army general and the primary school, which they
succeeded in razing down.
But they however met their waterloo as they many
of them were killed while a few others fled in
various directions.
Idi said, “The soldiers, guarding the residence of
the former task force commander, in collaboration
with their colleagues from Biu Military Barrack and
some members of the vigilance group, repelled the
attackers, killing over 20 members of the sect.”
Idi added that the terrorists set on fire all the
telecommunications masts in the town.
He explained that the terrorists, who stormed the
town at about 9.30am on Sunday, came through
Buni-Yadi, a Yobe town, which is under the sect’s
control.
A resident of the town, who fled to Biu, Bukar Buba,
also told journalists on the telephone that the
soldiers, guarding the general’s residence,
successfully repelled the attackers.