A group of gunmen suspected to be members of ISWAP have killed five people in a beer palour and a brothel in Gaidam Local Government of Yobe State.
It was gathered that terrorists silently sneaked into Quarry village in Giadam on the night of Friday and attacked the local joint. They tied the hands of the victims before slaughtering them with sharp knives.
According to Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region, a patrol team from 159 Battalion was immediately dispatched to the area where they discovered on arrival that the terrorists had killed the victims and fled the scene after touching the brothel and beer parlour, 3 houses and a car in the vicinity.
The troops who were scanning the area assisted in putting out the fire while five corpses of the victims who were identified tired to be Mallam Maina Abdullahi, Pastor Luka Ayuba, a local vigilantes members in the area and two identified persons one of which was suspected to be an abandoned member of the terrorists that perpetrated the act.
The troops also recovered a quantity of 64 7.62MM ammunition, a bookend handheld radio and a torch light which were abandoned by the terrorists who escaped.
The corpses of the five deceased victims have been evacuated and deposited at Yobe Specialist Hospital Mortuary in Gaidam.
