After long calm, Yobe buried 34 victims of Boko Haram massacre

No fewer than 34 Yobe villagers, killed in a Sunday attack by Boko Haram terrorists in Mafa village, were given a mass burial on Tuesday.

The victims were buried at Babangida, the headquarters of the Tarmuwa Local Government of Yobe State.

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Though villagers said over 100 persons were killed, the state government said the casualty figure was 34, The Punch reports.

The dead bodies were recovered in a search-and-rescue operation led by the Nigerian Army and supported by local vigilantes.

Villagers claimed that 86 dead bodies were recovered in the surrounding communities of the Mafa village, following the terror attack, during which several houses were razed by the insurgents.

The dead bodies were prepared for burial by the volunteers of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Babangida Division under the supervision of the Divisional Secretary, Garba Bulama Kachallah.

The spokesman for the Yobe State Police Command, Dungus Abdulkarim, had on Monday, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, confirmed the terror attack on the Mafa village in the Tarmuwa Local Government Area of Yobe State.