At least 27 fishermen were killed and four others abducted by the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, popularly known as Boko Haram terrorist group, in the fringes of Lake Chad in the border between Cameroon and Nigeria.
The terrorists, suspected to be from the Buduma faction of Abou Ummaymah, on Sunday, April 7, attacked a local fishing community harbouring most fishermen from Nigeria at Island Kofiya near Darak in the Republic of Cameroon.
Intelligence sources according Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad, revealed that the terrorists ordered the victims to lie down, tied their hands behind their backs before they started slaughtering them.
The sources said the terrorists also abducted four other fishermen after accusing them of spying for the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) faction.
The bodies of the fishermen were later recovered during a search and rescue operation by troops and their colleagues who received the news from victims who fled the attack scene.