Breaking: Four aid workers killed in Boko Haram attack in Borno - Risingsuntv

Four aid workers were killed in a Boko Haram attack in
Rann, in northeast Nigeria, the UN said on Friday, in the
latest violence to hit the remote town.
Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai
looks on at the headquaters of Operation Lafiya Dole in
Maiduguri, Borno State in northcentral Nigeria, on October
4, 2017.














The United Kingdom is providing expert training to the
Nigerian military in helping to develop the skills necessary
to tackle the terror threat of Boko Haram in North East
Nigeria. Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency began in 2009
and has killed at least 20,000 and forced more than 2.6
million from their homes. / AFP


The attack happened “after dark” outside a camp housing
some 55,000 people displaced by the conflict and
appeared to target the military, said UN spokeswoman
Samantha Newport.















A civilian militia source in Rann, which is some 175
kilometres (110 miles) from the Borno state capital of
Maiduguri, and a senior military source gave an identical
death toll.


They also said eight soldiers were killed in the attack but
there was no immediate official confirmation.
Newport said: “Four aid workers were killed, one aid
worker was injured and one aid worker is missing, feared
abducted.














“Of the aid workers that were killed, two worked for the
IOM (International Organization for Migration) in camp
management; and one was a medical doctor working as a
third party consultant for UNICEF,” the UN children’s
agency, she said.
















No details were immediately available for the fourth but
Newport said the injured and missing were both women.
All those involved were Nigerian, she added.
Boko Haram fighters killed nine people from the Rann
internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in September last
year, as they worked on farms just outside the town.
In January last year, a botched Nigerian air strike
intended to hit jihadist fighters killed at least 112 people
as aid workers distributed food.
Commanders at the time called the bombing a mistake
and blamed “the fog of war”.















An air force board of inquiry later blamed “lack of
appropriate marking of the area” for the bombardment
and an unexpected gathering of people at the location.