Residents said the group , attacked with firepower including rocket-propelled grenades in Mubi, a commercial hub in neighboring Adamawa.
According to eyewitness: “There is virtually not a single resident left in Mubi. Everybody has left to save their lives,” local resident Habu Saidu told AFP, as he trekked through the bush.
“People in thousands left the town on foot because all roads have been blocked by soldiers and it is not possible to leave by road.”
Saidu said the insurgents, who want to create a hardline Islamic state in northern Nigeria, stormed the town in large numbers on motorcycles and four-wheel-drive vehicles.
“Soldiers responded by opening fire and two military jets dropped bombs on Boko Haram positions. We left because it is no longer safe to stay,” he added.
Another resident, Muhammad Madani, said he saw Boko Haram fighters firing two RPGs from a black jeep before the air force jets arrived and dropped five bombs.
“We saw the Boko Haram fighters. They kept saying they had come to fight the military and police and not civilians,” he added.
“No one believes them. We know how they killed people in all the places they seized after assuring them they were not going to harm them.”
Record from security analysts estimate that Boko Haram have control of at least 20 major towns in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states at the time the purported ceasefire deal was announced on October 17.
Credit: PM news
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