At least 30 people killed in Boko Haram raids on villages in Nigeria

Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told AFP Saturday

At least 30 people have been killed in Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told AFP Saturday.

Reporting from France 24, gunmen on bikes and in vans stormed the remote villages of Yakhari and Kachifa on Friday and Saturday, said Mustapha Karimbe, a local vigilante assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram Islamists.

“The attackers killed 30 people in two separate attacks on the two villages on Friday and (Saturday),” Karimbe told AFP adding that they also looted and stole cattle.

Boko Haram, which seeks a hardline Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has killed some 17 000 people and forced more than 2.6 million others to flee their homes since the start of its insurgency in 2009.