BORNO, 30 November 2020 (TON): Farmers harvesting crops in Borno state attacked by armed men on motorcycles, in the ‘most violent direct’ assault against civilians this year, UN says.

According to Unite Nation “A “gruesome” massacre against farmers in north–eastern Nigeria killed at least 110 people, raising tolls initially indicating 43 and then at least 70 dead.”

The killings took place in the early afternoon of Saturday in the village of Koshobe and other rural communities in the Jere local government area near Maiduguri, the capital of the conflict-hit Borno state.

“Armed men on motorcycles led a brutal attack on civilian men and women who were harvesting their fields,” Edward Kallon, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria, said in a statement on Sunday.

He added “At least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed and many others were wounded in this attack.”

There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack yet but many rebellious groups are active in the region and have killed more than 30,000 people in the past decade during an armed campaign that has displaced some two million and has spread to neighbouring countries including Niger, Chad and Cameroon.