Suspected Boko Haram militants raided a town called Shani,the militants who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a mostly Christian town in the northeast after nightfall on Saturday,some residents and military said.
Residents said scores of people had been killed in the town of Shani, but the police source told us they had been unable to verify the death toll as communications to the town had been largely cut off.
"They rode on motorcycles and were more than 30 men.They started throwing bombs into houses...then the Boko Haram fired shots at people fleeing,"Ishaya Brimah spoke to the Reuters by phone from a nearby village on Sunday.
"They set ablaze the police station, houses and a telecommast...I saw people fleeing, some bodies on the ground."
However,A shopkeeper based in Shani, Shuabu Lawal, said he began hearing explosions at 8 pm on Saturday evening.
"A boy ran into my shop and said his father and elder brother had been shot. He was only wearing shorts, no top and sweating despite the wintry weather. I shut down my shop immediately, leaving some items outside," shop keeper Lawal said.The shani Police stations was burnt down and destroyed.
It has been recorded that the militants have stormed shani twice this year.
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