Reports reaching this blog suggests that all is not well in Yobe state village of Katarko as Boko Haram terrorists attacked the agrarian community located in Gujba local government where they slaughtered scores of hapless residents.
Gujba local government is located west of Damaturu, the state capital and Katarko is about 25km away.
Sources in Damaturu, Yobe state capital, said the terrorists may have been on a revenge mission following a major military raid on one of their camps in Goneri village on Tuesday during which many of them were killed in shootout and dozens others arrested, according to a security source who declined being quoted by name because he is not allowed to speak to the press.
Garus Umar a government worker in Damaturu informed Echoes News that some of the villagers who managed to escape the massacre called in from the bushes as they tried to make it on foot to the city.
"Yesterday the soldiers in Yobe state and some local Vigilante personnel had a successful operation at a Boko Haram camp in Goneri village where they arrested several members of the terrorists group and brought them here in Damaturu", said Umar.
"We learned that the soldiers were able to kill many others during a shootout", he added.
"But unfortunately, the people of Katarko a community 50km away from Goneri village had to pay with their lives, when the Boko Haram insurgents crept into the village in the wee hours of today and carried out slaughtering of innocent persons in seeming revenge for the loss they suffered on Tuesday".
Details of casualties have not been verified for now.
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