No fewer than 34 Yobe villagers, killed in an attack by Boko Haram terrorists in Mafa village, were given a mass burial yesterday September 3.
The victims were buried at Babangida, the headquarters of the Tarmuwa Local Government of Yobe State.
Though villagers said over 100 persons were killed, the state government said the casualty figure was 34.
The dead bodies were recovered in a search-and-rescue operation led by the Nigerian Army and supported by local vigilantes.
Villagers claimed that 86 dead bodies were recovered in the surrounding communities of the Mafa village, following the terror attack, during which several houses were razed by the insurgents.
The dead bodies were prepared for burial by the volunteers of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Babangida Division under the supervision of the Divisional Secretary, Garba Bulama Kachallah.
The spokesman for the Yobe State Police Command, Dungus Abdulkarim, had in an interview, confirmed the terror attack on the Mafa village in the Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State.
Abdulkarim said though the police had not ascertained the casualty figure, the attackers killed many villagers and razed many houses in the community.
The Yobe State Deputy Governor, Idi Gubana, led a state government delegation on a visit to the community, where he donated N30m to the families of the victims.
The incident threw the Mafa village and those living in the local government headquarters into mourning.
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