At least 45 people were killed while several others sustained gunshot wounds when Boko Haram members attacked Bargari village of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State on Wednesday night.

Bargari is an outskirt of Maiduguri, the state capital, and about 30 kilometres South-East of Giwa Barracks, which came under attack on 14th March, this year.

The attack also left many people displaced from their houses as the terrorists set ablaze houses, shops, vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles before carting away food items and livestock.

A resident of the village, Mallam Abubakar Maikudi, who escaped the attack said, “I counted 45 dead bodies, including one of my neighbours”.

On how he escaped, Maikudi said, “the gunmen who came into the village at about 9 pm on Wednesday gathered residents in one place convincing them that they came into Bargari to propagate the teaching/preaching of Islamic, and when almost all residents were gathered, another large number of terrorists came from nowhere and opened fire on the congregation.

“We started running, I was able to escape without being shot, but the gunmen killed over 40, injured many before they started looting properties and set structures ablaze razing the whole village completely”.

Also, another survivor, who did not mention his name said, “the gunmen numbering 20 ambushed the village with 4 Toyota Hilux vehicles, AK47 rifles, Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, and petrol bombs; they wrecked havoc before they fled towards the Sambisa forest”.

In a BBC Hausa service monitored in Maiduguri by our correspondent, it was also reported that about 45 people were killed by the Boko Haram sect in Bargari village of Borno state on Wednesday.

The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Gideon Jubrin’s phone number was not going through, but a top police officer confirmed the attack.