As of Tuesday, the death toll in the Kawuri village attack had risen to 85. Eyewitnesses had on Monday said that 52 people were slaughtered by the insurgents during the Kawuri attack.
Kawuri villagers,who were preparing for the burial of two newly-discovered bodies when Governor Kashim Shettima visited them, said they had buried 83 corpses.
Catholic Bishop of Yola, Mamza Stephen, captured the calamity that befell worshippers at a Catholic church in Waga Chakawa in Adamawa State when Boko Haram insurgents struck on Sunday morning.
The Bishop told the British Broadcasting Corporation that he heard from the survivors that insurgents arrived the village on trucks and locked the church “towards the end of the service.”
According to him, the militants set off bombs, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during the four-hour siege.
He added that death toll in the Waga Chakawa attack was 30 and not 22 as widely reported.
“Everybody is living in fear. There is no protection. We cannot predict where and when they are going to attack. People can’t sleep with their eyes closed,” he lamented.
In Kawuri village in Borno State, the story was the same as a 46-year- old grandmother, Rabi Mallam, narrated how another band of insurgents set her hut on fire on Sunday evening.
She said when she heard gunshots from every direction in the community, she rushed into her hut and hid herself with her son and granddaughter.
“I covered the children with heavy blanket soaked in water, but the fire still burnt us. I cried for the children because they were calling me to take them out, but I could not,” she said.
Although Mallam and the children (her son and granddaughter), survived with serious burns, many others were not as lucky as they died in the fire set on over 300 houses in the village by the insurgents.
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