More than 25 people, mostly fishermen, have been shot dead in a remote community in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, the heartland of Islamist group Boko Haram, police and witnesses said on Sunday.

On Saturday suspected Boko Haram insurgents entered Doron Baga, north of Maiduguri, the Borno capital, and fired from motorcycles. A police source said more than 25 people had been killed.

“Boko Haram members laid ambush for traders who came to buy fish in Doron Baga … they killed more than 40 of them and carted away the fishes some them had bought,” a resident in Maiduguri, Mallam Ali Jatu, told Reuters.

Doron Baga has been attacked by Boko Haram in the past.

Saturday’s attack was not immediately reported due to poor communications. It follows one on Wednesday when 45 people were killed in the same state as reprisal for the killing of four Boko Haram members.

 Credit: Reuters