No fewer than 27 fishermen were slaughtered and four others were abducted by the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād popularly known as Boko Haram terrorist group in the fringes of Lake Chad on the border between Cameroon and Nigeria.
It was gathered that terrorists suspected to be from the Buduma faction of Abou Ummaymah attacked a local fishing community harbouring most fishermen from Nigeria at Island Kofiya near Darak in the Republic of Cameroon.
According to intelligent sources, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in Lake Chad, Zagazola Makama revealed that the terrorists ordered the victims to lie down, and tied their hands behind their backs before they started slaughtering them.
The sources said the terrorists also abducted four other fishermen after accusing them of spying for the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction.
The bodies of the fishermen were later recovered during a search and rescue operation by troops and their colleagues who received the news from victims who fled the attack scene.
