According to eyewitness account, the suspected terrorists yesterday razed houses and forced residents to flee the town.
Nigerian pilot gathered that Gajiganna has been previously hit by the Islamist extremists, when the terrorists attacked a church in the town in 2012.
A senior local government official, Zarami Kolo confirmed the attack saying: “We have lost 11 of our innocent people The terrorists also injured several people and set on fire every single house in the village,” he said.
He said the raid began Wednesday evenning but details from the remote region, which has a poor mobile phone network, did not immediately emerge.
The militants “started shooting indiscriminately, forcing our people to scamper for safety”, Kolo said, adding: “The town is no more and our people are in distress.”
One of the fleeing residents, Ibrahim Habibu, said his brother was among the 11 people killed.
“I lost my brother and as I am talking to you, I don’t even know the whereabouts of my wife and two children. I made it to (the Borno state capital) Maiduguri after trekking through the bush overnight,” Habibu added. “Many of our people are still wandering in the bush.”
Gajiganna has large markets that attracts traders from across Borno state as well as from neighbouring Chad and Cameroon.
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