Hundreds being killed in Northeast Nigeria town of Gwoza, as terrorists take control of seized border area

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At least a hundred corpses are  littering the neighborhoods of Gwoza, a rocky northeast Nigerian town, 135km southeast of Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's state of Borno in the country's volatile northeast, as Boko Haram terrorists sustained their recent conquest of the area.

Both overwhelmed soldiers and harpless civilian residents are for now taking refuge in Gwoza's surrounding rocky mountains. The Boko Haram gunmen picked on them one after the other, according to information sourced from some of the displaced residents using Mobile phone services from the mountains.

The terrorists had long ago grounded all telecommunications  in the area, but residents could still use services of neighboring Cameroonian telecom on the mountain heights.

Ibrahim Ngalamuda,  a resident of Gwoza who spoke in hushed tones on the phone from Gwoza mountains said "we are scared because the terrorists are still in control since Wednesday night; many people had been killed,  but I can't say the exact figure but I know from the corpses I saw since Wednesday,  the death could be more than a hundred".

He lamented that most of them up in the mountains are gradually starving from hunger since their flight up the cliffs of the mountains about 48 hours ago.

Muhammed Gava, an official of the local vigilante group,  who is a native of Gwoza area but residing in Maiduguri,  confirmed to Echoesinn that "nearly 200 villagers,  including solders, have been killed in Gwoza from what my people told me Thursday".

He was not sure about the whereabout of Gwoza's top monarch, Alhaji Muhammadu Idrissa Timta, who was declared missing since that attack commenced, but a top security source hinted that he may have been helped to sneak out of his troubled kingdom into Maiduguri the state capital.

The monarch was just crowned in June this year after the death of his father,  the late king of Gwoza, Idrisa Timta, who was killed by Boko Haram gunmen on the 30th of May during an ambush attack on the convoy of three monarchs, of which two of the monarchs managed to survive.

The Boko Haram terrorists had since June hoisted their flags in the Gwoza area, after sacking residents and taking over the communities.