48 Fish Vendors killed by members of Boko Haram Near Nigerian border with Chad.

About 48 fish vendors have been killed by
suspected members of the Boko Haram
sect after setting up a roadblock near
Nigeria’s border with Chad, the head of
the fish vendors’ association said on
Sunday.
“Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a
route linking Nigeria with Chad near the
fishing village of Doron Baga on the
shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and
killed a group of 48 fish traders on their
way to Chad to buy fish,” Abubakar
Gamandi, head of the fish traders
association, told AFP.
According to Gamandi, the attackers set
up a barricade at Dogon Fili, 15
kilometres (nine miles) from Doron Baga
in Borno state, and stopped a convoy of
fish vendors around midday, slaughtering
some of them and drowning others in the
lake.
He told AFP that the terrorists slit the
throats of some of the men and tied the
hands and legs of the others before
throwing them into the lake to drown.
Gamandi explained that the assailants did
not kill any of their victims with guns.
“The attackers killed their victims silently
without the use of the gun to avoid
attracting attention from the multi-national
troops,” he said.
Doron Baga is the base of the Multi-
National Joint Task Force (MNJTF), which
comprise troops from Nigeria, Chad and
Niger fighting the Islamist group. The
original mandate of the group formed in
1998 was to fight trans-border crime but
that was expanded toinclude fight against
Boko Haram insurgency, as it threatened
to become a regional menace.
A military officer in Maiduguri confirmed
the attack to Vanguard, but said details
were sketchy.
“We heard of the attack near Doron Baga
but we don’t have any details because
the area falls under the operational
jurisdiction of the MNJTF,” the military
officer said.