Boko haram member were killed by vigilante group

A vigilante group made up of residents of
Kalabalge, a town in the north of Borno State, on
Wednesday mounted a fierce resistance to a siege
by members of Boko Haram, inflicting severe
casualties on militants from the fringe Islamist
sect.
“We killed many of them (Boko Haram members)
today (Wednesday),” one of the residents of the
town who took part in the battle told a
correspondent of SaharaReporters.

However, local officials who spoke to Al Jazeera
said 41 insurgents were killed by the villagers
Several other residents disclosed that the
members of the community had received advance
information that Boko Haram’s death squads were
on their way to wreak havoc in the community.
“Once we got the information, we gathered many
of our young men and positioned ourselves in
surrounding bushes and forests. We were armed
with bows and arrows, Dane guns and pump
action rifles,” said one source.
The sources added that some 400 Boko Haram
militants wearing army uniforms arrived in
Kalabalge around 5 a.m. in two armoured tanks,
eight Hilux pick-up vehicles, and seven sports
utility vehicles (SUVS), all painted in Nigerian
army colours according to eyewitnesses.
The sectarian terrorists however received the
shock of their lives from the ambush of the
community’s vigilantes. The Boko Haram
attackers were overwhelmed by the residents’
surprise firepower.
A security agent confirmed to SaharaReporters
that the villagers killed several of the attackers
and captured many of them, even though the rest
of the terrorists scampered off into the bush and
forests, some of them with injuries. The security
source disclosed that some village vigilantes lost
their lives while a few sustained gunshot wounds.
Kalabalge community is a few kilometers from
Gamboru-Ngala where sect members killed at
least 300 people last week Tuesday.
Our security source said Governor Kashim
Shettima of Borno State is expected to visit
Kalabalge later this week.