Officers say Boko Haram and ISWAP teams suspected of being behind the assaults on farmers within the Dumba area.
At the least 40 farmers have been killed in an assault by armed teams in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, in response to authorities officers.
Fighters from the Boko Haram group and ISIL (ISIS) affiliate in West Africa Province (ISWAP) had been suspected of finishing up the assault, Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum and State Data Commissioner Usman Tar stated on Monday.
Tar stated the teams rounded up dozens of farmers in Dumba on the shores of Lake Chad and shot them lifeless late on Sunday.
“Preliminary report signifies about 40 farmers have been killed whereas the whereabouts of many who escaped the assault are being traced for reunion with their households,” Tar stated.
The state authorities has ordered troopers battling insurgent fighters within the area “to trace and obliterate the rebel components” working round Dumba and their enclaves within the wider Lake Chad space, Tar added.
The farmers “strayed off” the secure restrict set by the armed forces for farming and fishing within the space that could be a sanctuary for fighters from ISWAP and Boko Haram and is dotted with landmines and “vulnerable to nocturnal assaults”, the commissioner stated.
Governor Zulum warned civilians to remain inside designated secure zones which have been cleared by the military of each fighters and munitions.
He additionally referred to as for an investigation into the assault by the armed forces.
Lake Chad, which straddles Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad, serves as a hideout for Boko Haram and ISWAP, which use it as a base to launch attacks.
Boko Haram took up arms in 2009 to battle Western training and impose their model of Islamic legislation.
Some 35,000 civilians have been killed and greater than two million have been displaced within the northeastern area, in response to the United Nations.
