Goniri Village was yesterday thrown into jubilant mood after troops crushed a Boko Haram attack lunched on the Village.
A resident of the Village Zarami informed that the entire village went into wide celebration with local hunters and soldiers shooting in the air after soldiers of Operation Lafiya Dole in the area lunched a successful fight against some Boko Haram elements who came late evening of Saturday to attack the Village.
Residents sources informed that most of the insurgents that came for the attack didn’t returned alive as they were all killed by the troops. A feat that made the villagers to come out and started singing victory songs and praises for the troops.
Another resident informed that, “within forty five minutes, the soldiers have finished with all the Boko Haram that came to attack us. We are so happy with what transpired that is why the people of the village couldn’t resist coming out to celebrate with the soldiers. We are proud of them,” he said.
A top security source who does not want to be quoted has also confirmed that “the insurgents met their waterloo in an attempt to over ran Goniri yesterday. The soldiers gave them a good fight and inflicted heavy casualty on them. Though I cannot tell how many precisely were killed but many of them that came didn’t survive”.
Yesterday’s attack on Goniri appears like a resurgence of the Boko Haram activities in a relatively peaceful Yobe after the insurgents barely a week killed about ten soldiers in a dastardly attack at Sasawa, another settlement in the state.
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